On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 18:20, Jimmy Wales wrote:
http://www.federalreserve.gov/BoardDocs/speeches/2003/20030404/default.htm
For example, though the set up cost of creating an on-line encyclopedia may be enormous, the cost of reproduction and distribution may be near zero if the means of distribution is the Internet.
The cost isn't *that* enormous, of course, when a free license empowers volunteers.
Depends on whether you count the economic cost of lost office productivity. ;)
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)