CCED and Intellectual Property

CCED & IP

Hi,

If what I heard at a talk on Intellectual Properties is true, then I
would suppose that those who does things like CCED software
(including programmers) should be doing much better than those
hawking hardware like cnc mills, routers, etc.

I was told about an exhibition at the Millenium Dome in London. In
order to get to this exhibition, you have to pass through a tunnel
made of 2 layers of perspex, which sandwich between it 1,000,000
pounds worth of currency. Inside, the exhibition shows London as the
financial center of the world, as 50% ? of the world's financial
transaction is routed through there, with a tremendous amount
(billions?) traded/transfered a day. It seems someone made a study of
how much of these were payments for tangible goods (read cnc mill,
etc) and intangible goods (read CNCPro, Deskam, etc) and we were
asked to guess the percentage for tangible. I guessed 1% and was
suprised when I was told I guessed pretty closed. We were told it was
only 2%!!! Hope those who had the privilage of visiting the Millenium
Dome can verify this.

ONLY 2% OF GLOBAL FINANCIAL TRANSACTION WERE PAYMENT FOR TANGIBLE
GOODS!! That should make a person sits up and think! (and aspire to
be a programmer rather than an engineer churning out CNC machines
etc.?????)

Anyone on the list visited this exhibition? Any programmer
getting "filthy" rich?

Peter