http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/open-source-value-destruction-vs-value-creation/2010/06/19 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:37:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/open-source-value-destruction-vs-value-creation/2010/06/19/comment-page-1#comment-430888 Kevin Carson Sun, 20 Jun 2010 06:56:39 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=9254#comment-430888 I doubt the value destroyed by free software is replaced, dollar for dollar, by money spent elsewhere. As more and more of what we consume has its price driven down in competition with Free, people will trade part of the savings for increased leisure. We will almost certainly see a shrinkage of the entire GDP and of the total amount of wage employment. I doubt the value destroyed by free software is replaced, dollar for dollar, by money spent elsewhere. As more and more of what we consume has its price driven down in competition with Free, people will trade part of the savings for increased leisure. We will almost certainly see a shrinkage of the entire GDP and of the total amount of wage employment.

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