Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 14:52:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 14:52:02 -0400 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:35929 "EHLO frodo.biederman.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 14:52:01 -0400 To: "Samium Gromoff" <_deepfire@mail.ru> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Funding GPL projects or funding the GPL? References: From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: 29 Jul 2002 12:43:13 -0600 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1130 Lines: 26 "Samium Gromoff" <_deepfire@mail.ru> writes: > Most of you, people, didn`t ever thought about the fact that the money > scheme > doesn`t simply work at all. That`s it. > > It`s being a _very_ fundamental issue. Look at the history: > Money were invented as a human work equivalent. What it > became now - this exercise is for the reader. Money is not a human work equivalent. Money is a commodity that everyone will barter with. Making bartering more efficient. With pure barter you have to do something like: work -> stuff1 -> stuff2 ->stuff3 -> stuff you want. With money this usually becomes work -> money -> stuff you want. > So the life shows that we cannot rely on the > money as a human work equivalent. This makes the assumption that all work is equally valuable. But you already made the assertion that a manager sitting around is not as a miner. Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/