Re: economic efficiency of free software
"Stephen J. Turnbull" <[email protected]>
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>>>>> "ken" == ken i m <[email protected]> writes: ken> I'm sorry. I am too; I've been in this place too long, I guess. ken> In other words, what I want does not exist. Some big chunks ken> of fundamental technology have not been invented yet. I have to wonder why you don't marvel at Amazon.com[1], Google, and Lexis/Nexis, and see the glass as "half-full." Maybe you just don't remember being totally at the mercy of travel agents, library card catalogs, the Index of Periodical Literature, and the like? It seems to me that what's needed on top of them is not so much fundamental technology as grubby spadework assembling rule databases and monitoring current conditions for "expert systems". Footnotes: [1] I'm not talking about delivering books, but about delivering information. I made my first Amazon purchases last December. But it has been my second-most-used bibliographic research tool for several years. Number one is my personal BibTeX database. Hm. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.