Aucbvax.1729 fa.apollo utzoo!duke!mhtsa!ucbvax!SK@MIT-MC Sun Jun 14 11:19:33 1981 personal computer economics "... So your increase in productivity would have to be at least 20% to break even." Not at all. Suppose your time is worth $30,000/yr. I will sell you a two dollar widget that will increase your productivity 10%. According to your statement, you would not buy the $2 widget from me because it doesn't "save" you $6,000/yr; it only saves you $3,000/yr. What you were trying to say is that the ROI of OA should be higher than other investments. Yes, I agree. But your statement above is incorrect. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.