Edited by author 07-09-2002 05:14 PM
Jon Udell wrote of QuickTopic in 2000, as part of a paper presented at CodeSourcery. This will be my first time trying it out.

I think that the hyperbole and power struggles over stuff, content that is, are because there's nothing really there to fight over. Intellectual property is not property at all. For the middlemen to make money selling something that is not scarce, the scarcity must be created. It is, by fiat, in the Constitution, and supported by the scarcity of the media, of paper, ink, and space. However, digital reproduction of works destroys this scarcity. The only scarcity remaining is time.

Other battles are fought, over complementary things.