People with new ideas could distribute programs as freeware, asking for donations from satisfied users, or selling hand-holding services. I have met people who are already working this way successfully.

The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job;…

We have already greatly reduced the amount of work that the whole society must do for its actual productivity, but only a little of this has translated itself …

The case of programs today is very different from that of books a hundred years ago. The fact that the easiest way to copy a program is from one neighbor to an…