A poignant example -- but I disagree as to its import. A perennial business strategy is to create commercial means for satisfying needs that commerce creates -

A poignant example -- but I disagree as to its import. A perennial business strategy is to create commercial means for satisfying needs that commerce creates -- of the creation of scarcity out of abundance, be it food, education, health, etc. So it goes with software as well. On one side there is "opportunity"; on the other, exploitation. I don't know how this relates to Miguel & Richard, though; their issue seems to be the classic "radical vs liberal" split.