URL: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/000616
Date: 2002-09-25T18:54:10-06:00
One of the weirdest things I heard when listening to the Cato Institute debate
was an economist claim "a tenet of my profession is that people won't pay for
something they can get for free." Someone objected, using the analogy of
bottled water. There's a far better example: The New York Times.
Incredibly, this institution puts out pages and pages of high-quality
professional content each week and then distributes them by means of men in
trucks across the country overnight where they sit, waiting to be sold to
people. Meanwhile, the exact same content is available _for free_ using an
insidious peer-to-peer downloading system called "the Web" by typing in the
keyword "www.nytimes.com". Those people at the New York Times must not
understand the Internet or something!
More examples: the thriving shareware market, the Baen Free Library, Janis Ian
and others.
Other times, people claim that no one will create if they can't get paid. I'd
like to introduce you to free software and just about every weblog on the
planet.

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Ken Dow reports that the current version of OmniOutliner can read
    and write
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Ken Dow reports[1] that the current version of OmniOutliner can read and write
OPML. This means, for example, with a little Radio script (or an AppleScript)
you could use Omni as an Instant Outliner[2].

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Ray Ozzie: "How long before we see auto pingback generator spambots?"
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