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Artificial Scarcity and Open Source
Jul 8, 2007, 00 :00 UTC (4 Talkback[s]) (9566 reads)
(Other stories by Matt Asay)

"Luis Villa has left a placeholder for a larger discussion on artificial scarcity. Luis has a problem with...

"creating artificial scarcity, either through the use of patents, copyrights, or trademarks, or by allowing others to use trade secret and SaaS tactics to take data from the commons and then proprietarize it....

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