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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: A Nutty Idea
Message-ID: <2642@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 18 Apr 88 16:20:00 GMT
References: <231@unsvax.UUCP> <6276@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <138@bud.UUCP>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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Keywords: volunteer GNU-like PD freeware
Summary: relative advantage

Let's not forget the economic concept of relative advantage.  Rather
than getting lots of people to each volunteer 5 hours of their time to
write public domain software, it might be better for these people to
volunteer 5 hours of their wages, pool the resulting money, buy the
rights to good existing software, and release it to the public domain.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi