On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Frank Sweetser
<fs@wpi.edu> wrote:
On 03/25/2012 07:35 PM, Keith Wright wrote:
>>
>> If what you are getting online is for free, you are
>> not the customer, you are the product. -Jonathan
>> Zittrain, professor of Internet law (b. 1969)
>
> I have read that before, but did not have an
> attribution. I would like to offer and ammendment.
>
> you are not the customer, you are the merchandise.
>
> Facebook, Google, and Hotmail had nothing to do
> with producing me; I am not their product.
>
> -- Keith
>
> PS: Essay question 1: How does this aphorism
> apply to getting Linux for free?
Would it be considered cheating to just refer someone to Eric Raymond?
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