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Hi Thomas and list! One small note regarding this very interesting and IMHO fruitful thread. Last week (7 days ago) Thomas Uwe Gruettmueller wrote:
The only remaining task for these firms would be manufacturing the goods. The firms would produce identical products -- meaning also of identical quality. So the only difference between the products of different firms would be the price. To stay competitive, each firm would have to reduce the price continously, meaning utilizing more effective machines, less man power and -- as the last consequence -- making less profit.
I'd like to support this by a development taking place in electronics at the moment (your field Graham - correct me if I'm telling Unsinn ;-) ). In electronics - well: chip design - there is currently a strong tendency to use more and more so called FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Array) and relatives. These are devices which in some sense bring software closer to hardware. In fact a (complex) FPGA is something like a universal chip. It gets its universality by the fact that the concrete hardware function the device executes is programmed into it immediately before it is used. Clearly such a beast is an important device for our discussions and thoughts. Because of mass production I'd expect the price of such devices drops in the future and thus the abilities to have Free hardware in the sense of Free chips. And regarding universal materialisators I guess there will be similar effects. Mit Freien Grüßen Stefan _________________________________ Web-Site: http://www.oekonux.de/ Organisation: projekt oekonux.de
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