A whole load of cryptic stuff…
Our good friend Rob visited over the past couple of days, was great to see him again and catch up. Dave also came up from Birmingham and much wine and food was consumed by all.
Yesterday we went to the Strines Inn at Bradfield Dale and then on to Ladybower reservoir.
And so we face, in the twenty-first century, a very basic moral question. If you could make as many loaves of bread as it took to feed the world, by baking one loaf and pressing a button, how could you justify charging more for bread than the poorest people could afford to pay? If the marginal cost of bread is zero, then the competitive market price should be zero too. But leaving aside any question of microeconomic theory, the moral question of what should be the price of what keeps someone else alive if it costs you nothing to provide it to them, has only one unique answer. There is no moral justification for charging more for bread that costs nothing than the starving can pay. Every death from too little bread under those circumstances is murder. We just don’t know who to charge for the crime.
Another quote from Professor Eben Moglen in his Plone conference keynote.
We are moving to a world in which in the twenty-first century the most important activities that produce occur not in factories, and not by individual initiative, but in communities held together by software.
Eben Moglen, professor of law and history of law at Columbia University, General Counsel for the Free Software Foundation, and Chairman of the Software Freedom Law Center.
Decided to start again with this website, again. This is revision 5 of thecrypt.co.uk