RE: A Question of Ethics (was: Overriding Acrobat User Settings)

[mpriestl -at- ca -dot- ibm -dot- com]

Jane Carnall:
>Actually, I'd say that open source and communism neither provide a free
>lunch. Both tap into a basic resource, unrecognised by formal economics,
>which provides a large part of the labour on which the formal economic
>system depends: people's willingness to provide unpaid labour when they
see
>a job that needs doing and feel themselves responsible for doing it. Both
>housework and childcare are largely resourced using this method, and (as
any
>feminist economist will tell you) it works alarmingly well.

If someone else pays for my lunch, then it's a free lunch. Other than that
quibble, I agree with your summation.

Michael Priestley
DITA Specialization Architect
mpriestl -at- ca -dot- ibm -dot- com
Dept 833 IBM Canada    t/l: 778-3233    phone: 416-448-3233
Toronto Information Development


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