<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 03/03/2013, at 7:28 PM, Nathan Brookfield <<a href="mailto:Nathan.Brookfield@simtronic.com.au">Nathan.Brookfield@simtronic.com.au</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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<div>The big guys get bigger while the smaller guys get spanked because they missed out on a resource which some people had the impression was never ending and were handed out IP space like it was candy at a rave.</div>
</div></blockquote><br></div><div>Nobody thought it was never-ending. There has been rather a lot of drum-banging for</div><div>at least the last decade.</div><div><br></div><div>Most people only actually started paying attention to it <i>this year. </i>Or maybe not even then.</div><div><i><br></i></div><div>A small number of organizations paid attention to it earlier, and maybe they'll make more money</div><div>as a result. I'm not a big fan of it and wish it didn't happen, but you're not claiming that monetizing</div><div>information asymmetry is an invalid way of making profits, are you?</div><div><br></div><div> - mark</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br></body></html>