Re: virus: Second Class Netizens

Robin Faichney (robin@faichney.demon.co.uk)
Thu, 12 Mar 1998 15:47:01 +0000


In message <19980312141528.AAA3223@[199.94.22.188]>, Wade T.Smith
<wade_smith@harvard.edu> writes
>>the teacher had to help them master the paradigm of "book"
>
>We are left with the problem of why this 'book' was a mystery to the
>student. Why do we withhold information (even by withholding the means to
>the information) from other people?
>
>Are we not all students and teachers on this road?
>
>Why is information not free and freely given? What is intellectual
>property?

Information will be free when it costs nothing
to produce it. (Or it's subsidised.)

-- 
Robin