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Hi On Fri 01-Aug-2003 at 04:14:36AM -0700, johan soderberg wrote:
I just read about a studie from the sixties, in which the authors concluded that in that time, 30% of the cost of a car was inbedded in the costs of designing new models. That proportion is likely to have skyrocked in the last 40 years. A long-shot guess could be 50-80 % of a car today is made up of design cost? That would imply that if design was free, then material goods would be down with 50-80% too. Clearly not an attractive option to capitalism!
While not an attractive option to capitalism as a whole it is something that is potentially attractive to individual capitalists since it can give them a competative edge in their battles with other capitalists. The most used example of this is IBM using Linux in competition with the likes of Microsoft, another example might be MIT putting their courses online [1] in part to enable them to compete better with other universities. It is somewhat ironic that the dynamic of capitalist competition is resulting if the adoption of the free software mode of production since if this mode of production becomes dominant it will be the end of capitalism :-) It is also really unclear what capitalism as a whole can do about this -- it's kind of like it is eating itself from inside out. Chris [1] http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/134223 -- http://chris.croome.net/ _______________________ http://www.oekonux.org/
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