Much to everyone's surprise, information created in one corner finds its way into all the other corners rather quickly. Because our previous economy was built upon scarcity of goods, we have so far fought the natural fecundity of information by trying to control every act of replication as it occurs. We take a massively parallel copy machine and try to stifle most acts of reproduction. As in other puritanical regimes, this doesn't work. Information wants to be copied.
Information wants to be free to wander and reproduce.
Success, in a netnot by worked world of decentralized nodes, belongs to those plans that do not resist either the replication or roaming urges of information. If revenue collection were based on monitoring the use of software inslde a computer, vendors could dispense with copy protection altogether. Cox is a software developer specializing in object-oriented programming. In addition to the previously mentioned virtue of reduced bugs which OOPdelivers, it offers two other magnificent improvements over conventionalsoftware. Cox developed a set of cool OOP objects that he sold to Steve Jobs to use in his Next machine, but selling small bits of modular code as a regular business has been slow.