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Re:Miguel de Icaza responds to latest RMS article by Anon84 on Tuesday October 06, 2009 @10:02AM (#864101) 

      Two shoe salesmen were sent to Africa in the early 
      1900's to scout the territory.

      One telegraphed back: "Situation hopeless. Stop. No one wears shoes."

      The other telegraphed: "Business opportunity. Stop. They have no shoes."
Nothing makes a larger difference than knowing an opportunity when you see one.
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Re:Miguel de Icaza responds to latest RMS article by wingo on Tuesday October 06, 2009 @11:44AM (#864405)
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.

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