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How do you draw the line between "user" and "exploiter"? Was there any point in the past Amazon wasn't an "exploiter"? What if a user becomes an exploiter? Can
by spijdar 6y ago
How do you draw the line between "user" and "exploiter"? Was there any point in the past Amazon wasn't an "exploiter"? What if a user becomes an exploiter? Can an exploiter become a user through repentance? Where's the legal boundary?
- drdeca 6y agolegal boundary or moral boundary? (Not that I have an answer in either case, but my impression was that "exploiter" was an expression of moral judgement, not a legal judgement)
- luckylion 6y agoNot OP and not really invested. You can probably replace "exploiter" with provider. A user uses the software directly, a provider provides it to users. Amazon can be both simultaneously, they can run ES to analyze sales and find out what products of third party sellers are worth copying, and they can also offer ES as a service to other users. That kind of difference is pretty common in non-source-related things, e.g. you can use the API for your business, but you can't resell access to the API.
- aaomidi 6y agoAre you able to, in your head, draw a difference between Amazon and Amin running some application in their home-built system? That's how you draw the line.