economy

An excellent article about how digital technology allowed whole industries to evolve around providing their content and services for zero cost to the user. The sidebar features are also quite potentially useful.

I would also like to point out to a critique as well as an excellent comment to one of the posts the critique post linked which was aptly titled: "Incredible stupidity relating to online free".

I recommend reading all of the above. I am singling out that comment because it seems like an important distinction to make between free and no-cost. It quite reminds of the distinction we make between "free as in freedom" software and "zero cost" software.

Bruce Schneier explains the economics of lock-in.

Talking with the leader of the Croatian Multimedia Institute I was referred to Yochai Benkler whose speech he held in the institute I apparently missed. Looking at his website I discovered a book called "The Wealth of Networks" whose title is immediately attractive to me, not to mention it has a kind of sensational ring to it as it reminds of the famous "Wealth of Nations".

I started reading it and looks like something worth reading all the way through. It covers topics which very obviously and directly relate to what we discuss and promote on Libervis.com and describes, in detail, the w