Re: Linux Developer gets Gong from Microsoft

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From: Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
Date: Wed Nov 29 2000 - 07:10:34 PST


ThosStew@aol.com writes:

> the tragedy of the commons strikes again; it led Stephen King to decide not
> to continue writing his net-novel

Tragedy indeed:

1) he set an arbitrary (high, iirc 75%) threshold for payments
2) the value to be paid itself is rather large, and most of it goes to
   the credit card company. Few bucks (2-3$) would have been appropriate.
3) there is no widespread single-click (low-threshold, low-overhead,
   micrograin) digicash scheme.


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