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Mattias Gustavsson
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| LordGalbalan wrote: | | So in your view, money is just another form of bartering? |
That's a matter of fact, not opinion.
| LordGalbalan wrote: | | OK, now another question: does free software inhibit economic growth, particularly in the software industry? |
Do you even know what "economic growth" is? I'd suggest you go read a couple of books on economics... they're quite boring, but I guess you seem to have an interest in the topic, so that might help *shrug*
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Mattias Gustavsson
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| Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 9:25 am Post subject: |
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| LordGalbalan wrote: | | So in your view, money is just another form of bartering? |
That's a matter of fact, not opinion.
| LordGalbalan wrote: | | OK, now another question: does free software inhibit economic growth, particularly in the software industry? |
Do you even know what "economic growth" is? I'd suggest you go read a couple of books on economics... they're quite boring, but I guess you seem to have an interest in the topic, so that might help *shrug*
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RampantCoyote
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| Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 5:03 pm Post subject: |
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Barter is an exchange of value.
Money is a vehicle for exchange of value. It's an abstraction that simplifies and streamlines the process *greatly*, but it also comes with its own baggage.
| Quote: | | OK, now another question: does free software inhibit economic growth, particularly in the software industry? |
And that was kinda my point - "Free" means a lot of things. Just because some software bypasses traditional methods of generating monetary revenue does not mean that value is not exchanged, and that economic growth (on a small scale) doesn't take place. In business (from my admittedly limited perspective of more of the small business side of things), a lot of the negotiating points in many deals have nothing to do with money changing hands. But I wouldn't say there's anything "Free" about it - it's more of the "let's codify what we mean by scratching each other's backs."
It's how business gets done, and how the economy grows bit by bit.
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Hajo
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| Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 11:59 am Post subject: |
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| LordGalbalan wrote: |
So in your view, money is just another form of bartering?
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Money just refined the task of bartering, by offering an easy to carry, commonly accepted token of defined value.
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Hajo
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Money just refined the task of bartering, by offering an easy to carry, commonly accepted token of defined value.
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