Comments on: Non-DRM works! http://tottinge.blogsome.com/2007/06/26/non-drm-works/ Tim Ottinger on Christianity, freedom, software, podcasts, and really hot-looking guitars. Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:33:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Tim http://tottinge.blogsome.com/2007/06/26/non-drm-works/#comment-557 Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:06:18 +0100 http://tottinge.blogsome.com/2007/06/26/non-drm-works/#comment-557 Agreed: the market chooses well, provided it has the ability to choose freely. Now, of course, the market will choose from among the options open to it, so controlling distribution or awareness of options or popularizing false perceptions of options can cause the market to make choices poorly. Hence FUD and the famous microsoft tax and Brittney Spears. But what's cool is that the market does not merely choose, it also drives the development of new choices and new categories of choice. Unless, that is, there is a stranglehold on innovation, some barrier to entry like the US patent system right now. I like how the market will flow around obstructions. I fear it as well, because it means you can become irrelevant if you don't keep up. It is a fickle place, running on convenience rather than loyalty. But it's exciting. Agreed: the market chooses well, provided it has the ability to choose freely. Now, of course, the market will choose from among the options open to it, so controlling distribution or awareness of options or popularizing false perceptions of options can cause the market to make choices poorly. Hence FUD and the famous microsoft tax and Brittney Spears.

But what’s cool is that the market does not merely choose, it also drives the development of new choices and new categories of choice. Unless, that is, there is a stranglehold on innovation, some barrier to entry like the US patent system right now.

I like how the market will flow around obstructions. I fear it as well, because it means you can become irrelevant if you don’t keep up. It is a fickle place, running on convenience rather than loyalty. But it’s exciting.

]]> by: Kris Cook http://tottinge.blogsome.com/2007/06/26/non-drm-works/#comment-556 Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:25:19 +0100 http://tottinge.blogsome.com/2007/06/26/non-drm-works/#comment-556 Markets ALWAYS choose wisely, or at least more wisely than vested interests. Unfortunately, it's often these interests that wind up controlling the descision-making process for their own short-term purposes rather than the long-term good of the market. Markets ALWAYS choose wisely, or at least more wisely than vested interests. Unfortunately, it’s often these interests that wind up controlling the descision-making process for their own short-term purposes rather than the long-term good of the market.

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