The Hook: An Observed Phenomenon

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• I've described my interest in open source software:
  • I could fix bugs in open source, the problems with proprietary software were never fixed
  • But without proprietary marketing, how to finance development?
  • I was caught by the economic puzzle
• A similar experience caught Richard Stallman
  • His response was not academic, instead he started a political / cooperative "free software movement" of volunteers
• Horiemon was fascinated by the ability of stock splits to raise share price
  • His response was to "dive in" to the "money game"

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