The idea of an OSS movement that reduces the overall volume of economic revenues is widespread but wrong. There is no company that burns the money that is saves on OSS. The money is simply spent on other purposes creating the same gross domestic product. Therefore 'uneconomic' damage and repair are of no benefit for the economy.
Hans
On Wednesday, January 7, 2004, 5:06:26 PM, Michael Groß wrote:
[snip] (it is just like the environment pollution thing: having a company that pollutes nature, and then having a company that does the decontamination and clean-up economically makes perfectly sense: both produce something and thus help raise the gross domestic product. Having only one company with a "green" pruducing scheme is in terms of GDP less good). _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list Discussion@fsfeurope.org https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion