Daily Archives: 2010/01/03

Incentives matter and monopolies are terrible

Posted on 2010/01/03 by Dimitrios Diamantaras

Monopoly (or near monopoly) is always very bad for consumers. Check out this article from OSnews.com about Intel’s compiler that goes to some lengths to handicap non-Intel processors. I got more and more thankful for the free software folks (think … Continue reading →

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Academic textbooks and healthcare incentives compared – Boing Boing

Posted on 2010/01/03 by Dimitrios Diamantaras

The always interesting Boing Boing blog has a long post on the market for academic textbooks and makes explicit comparisons of the incentives in this market and in the U.S. healthcare system. I won’t quote from the article, as it … Continue reading →

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