--=-/kg6WZxAeRYHyu0uIc7G Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 23:42, Ted Gould wrote: > As far as 'economic progress' is concerned, I would say that greed is a > great engine for that. The GPL is not built for economic progress. I > think that you are putting a square peg is a round hole. According to game theory, greed is actually harmful. The confess, not/confess game proves it so eloquently. http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general/whatis.htm Note the substitue 'confess' for contribute to the common good and 'not/confess' to being selfish(greed) The theory states that if the parties are confessing they make out with a win/win, further more there is no better logical move than to confess because regardless of what the other does you are pitted to make out better than not. Interesting stuff. Again, I think the real move will be Free Software Worker Owned Co-OPs, but thats another debate. ;) --=20 Derek Neighbors GNU Enterprise http://www.gnuenterprise.org derek@gnue.org Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=3Ddneighbo --=-/kg6WZxAeRYHyu0uIc7G Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA9nTwDHb99+vQX/88RAoFmAJ0RkslNaKA6UTIMawRU1h0i6JLymACeOhh9 mw12cygQ77EG6t5OQ+DvTa8= =AbXJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-/kg6WZxAeRYHyu0uIc7G--