<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div>Kelly said:</div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><br>Wikipedia is important primarily as a prime example of a new economic<br>model that is, IMHO quite important. The encyclopedia itself is a huge<br>accomplishment, but the open source economic model is the paradigm<br>shift, and I believe that actually does rank up there with the<br>invention of the printing press, double entry book-keeping, money,<br>writing, poetry, musical notation, the English patent system,<br>discovery of evolution, the invention of intellectual property, sliced<br>bread and the scientific method as one of the great memes of all time.<br>It will take a couple more decades, I think, to fully appreciate the<br>model for what
it will become, but I have no doubt that it will take<br>its place among these other great memes.<br><br>Kevin replies:</div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Have you considered that the new economic model represented by Wikipedia isn't new at all? It is communism. </div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><br></div></div><div style="position:fixed"></div>
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