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Why rob creative people of making profit. Open source often cuts people out of profit under the promise of notoriety for imaginary future profits. Many people a

Why rob creative people of making profit. Open source often cuts people out of profit under the promise of notoriety for imaginary future profits. Many people are not advanced graduates of elite colleges or independently wealthy. To create free repositories undermines talent that should be paid for and nourished. If you live in utopia this is great, for those who don’t it is another barrier to your dream.

input_sh 7y ago
They're all sourced from Wikipedia. The license needs to be pretty permissive for the photo to be included in Wikipedia in the first place.
abtinf 7y ago
This is the same argument used to oppose free trade and immigration. On an economic level, it ignores all of the benefits of open source materials, claims that more expensive goods result in greater wealth, and doesn’t account for comparative advantage.
Meph504 7y ago
I'm sorry but that's crazy, firstly this repo has nothing to do with lisc. So if someone was going to pay for an image to use commercial this wouldn't effect them. And open source is a social equalizer, it allows those who couldn't afford to license code a place to have access to and learn about coding, and development process. Your argument basically sounds like we should close all public libraries because they rob the authors of books profits. I would also argue that there are very few people that are being tricked into working on open source projects. Open source repos are worked on by people from all walks of life from people would went to the best colleges in the world, to people who didn't finish high school. I love to know where you got these notitions from.
Tepix 7y ago
These images were given away by their creators. Are you saying they shouldn't be allowed to do that?
derekp7 7y ago
You have just submitted a comment that is an opinion piece. Professional writers make a living writing opinion columns, and they are struggling right now. Partly due to the prevlance of free opinions such as yours. You should stop submitting free opinions to web forums, so that the market for professional writing is maintained.

input_sh 7y ago

They're all sourced from Wikipedia. The license needs to be pretty permissive for the photo to be included in Wikipedia in the first place.

abtinf 7y ago

This is the same argument used to oppose free trade and immigration. On an economic level, it ignores all of the benefits of open source materials, claims that more expensive goods result in greater wealth, and doesn’t account for comparative advantage.

Meph504 7y ago

I'm sorry but that's crazy, firstly this repo has nothing to do with lisc. So if someone was going to pay for an image to use commercial this wouldn't effect them. And open source is a social equalizer, it allows those who couldn't afford to license code a place to have access to and learn about coding, and development process. Your argument basically sounds like we should close all public libraries because they rob the authors of books profits. I would also argue that there are very few people that are being tricked into working on open source projects. Open source repos are worked on by people from all walks of life from people would went to the best colleges in the world, to people who didn't finish high school. I love to know where you got these notitions from.

Tepix 7y ago

These images were given away by their creators. Are you saying they shouldn't be allowed to do that?

derekp7 7y ago

You have just submitted a comment that is an opinion piece. Professional writers make a living writing opinion columns, and they are struggling right now. Partly due to the prevlance of free opinions such as yours. You should stop submitting free opinions to web forums, so that the market for professional writing is maintained.