Re: economic efficiency of free software

On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 03:14:15PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull ([email protected]) wrote:
> _Plenty_ of Bot Fridays to be had---and for only 5000--10000 yen each.

I'm sorry.  It was a reference to an administrative assistant.  If I had 
attended a liberal arts school I might be able to cite the literary 
reference.  Of course, what I really want is a super assistant to assist 
in research, travel arrangements, scheduling, accounting, etc.

In other words, what I want does not exist.  Some big chunks of 
fundamental technology have not been invented yet.  Marke.. .  . .

I was about to say something about markets when I recalled the X-Prize.  
An awesome example of "putting one's money where their mouth is".


I retire from this thread to reformulate some positions.
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