I was talking about the marginal cost of software. Of course the first copy is expensive. Of course talent is scarce. Of course time is scarce. Still, once

I was talking about the marginal cost of software. Of course the first copy is expensive. Of course talent is scarce. Of course time is scarce. Still, once it's done, copying it cost near nothing. If you raise that marginal cost above this natural "near zero", that creates an incentive to reinvent the wheel. Your actually scarce resource, talent, is being wasted on duplicated effort. Proprietary software causes duplicated efforts. Not an ideal use of our resources, don't you think? --- > "getting your act together" sounds scary to someone who grew up in Communist Eastern Europe Come on, that was a small group of people seizing power to the detriment of most everyone else. You sound like it's the only alternative to our corporate capitalism. Seriously?