Re: Happy "Too Cheap To Meter" day! [FW]

[garyi@trinityphysics.com]

Technically speaking, Strauss was right that power (eventually) could be abundant and 

cheap.  Unfortunately, as long as a commodity is in demand, there will be somebody 

charging a price for it.  Usually that price is "as much as the traffic will bear."  



Software is one of the the very few areas where this rule is being assaulted.  On one 

side you have your Microsofts, who charge as much as they can get away with, and on 

the other you have groups like Source Forge, who work together to make programs that 

belong to everyone.



-Gary Isenhower





On 17 Sep 2004 at 8:41, Franta, Jaroslav <frantaj@AECL.CA> wrote:



> 

> A colleague posted this on another listserv yesterday.....

> Jaro 

> -----Original Message-----

> From: Brown, Morgan [mailto:brownmj@aecl.ca]

> Sent: Thursday September 16, 2004 5:13 PM

> To: Cdn-Nucl-L (E-mail)

> Subject: [cdn-nucl-l] Happy "Too Cheap To Meter" day!

> It was 50 years ago today that Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss, chairman of

> the US Atomic Energy Commission, said: "It is not too much to expect

> that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too

> cheap to meter, will know of great periodic regional famines in the



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