Z:gnu-www-ja-moglen-harvard-speech-2004--f9a4b2-Hardware, that is computers an/en

Hardware, that is computers and, you know PDAs, as well as shoes and tables and bricks in the wall and even seats in a Harvard Law School classroom, has non-zero marginal cost. And the traditional microeconomic reasoning still continues to apply to it in pretty much the way that it did for Adam Smith, David Ricardo, or Karl Marx. Reasoning about hardware is, in that sense, like reasoning about the economy we grew up in and presents all of those questions of how you actually cover the costs of each new unit that the market is designed to help us solve.