At 7:25 PM -0500 on 6/30/02, xganon wrote:
> The only evil here is the viewpoint that people must not have choices, > that they must be forced into a Communist from-each-according-to-his- > ability system where creative people have no choice or control over the > products of their minds. All they have to do is auction the first copy off for a lot of money, cash, and let the market take care of the rest. That, by the way, is what people do now, of course, with advances, record contracts, and so on. The net, and bearer transactions, would make it cheaper than trying to replicate an industrial distribution mechanism onto a geodesic network. Cheers, RAH -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
