Interesting Tim O'Reilly article.

From: Heinz Wolter <h.wolter_at_sympatico.ca>
Date: Fri Dec 13 10:45:01 2002

is this an old Scottish trick ;)
what is you get stuck to the doorlock ;(
h
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Wright" <dtwright_at_uiuc.edu>
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Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 9:52 AM
Subject: Re: Interesting Tim O'Reilly article.


> Wayne M. Smith said:
> > >
> > You are a rare breed of a bygone age. The college market, for example,
a
> > prior mainstay of music sales, is largely gone. At most campus dorms
you
> > can get any current album burned by a fellow student for $1.00 plus
media.
> > And this is what they do. Why? Well, the money, bolstered by the fact
that
> > college campuses are infected by a "nothing is ever really wrong" moral
> > relativism where only a fool would pay an extra $10 for the real thing.
>
> Really? Where do you get these statistics? Most things I have read
> contradict what you are saying and reinforce the "most people sample then
buy"
> assumption. If you have a source for these numbers I would be quite
> interested to read it.
>
> - Dan Wright
> (dtwright_at_uiuc.edu)
> (http://www.uiuc.edu/~dtwright)
>
> -] ------------------------------ [-] -------------------------------- [-
> ``Weave a circle round him thrice, / And close your eyes with holy dread,
> For he on honeydew hath fed, / and drunk the milk of Paradise.''
> Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan
>
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