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In fairness, crowd funding and or altruistic consumers could theoretically sustain content production.
by foota 5y ago
In fairness, crowd funding and or altruistic consumers could theoretically sustain content production.
- skeeter2020 5y agoin reality this isn't the choice; it's typically private enterprise vs. public (government) broadcasters. Even PBS with lots of supporting patrons can't make it without significant government funding.
- foota 5y agoDoes PBS make content people want to watch?
- account42 5y ago> in reality this isn't the choice In the reality with excessive copyright terms, yes. > Even PBS with lots of supporting patrons can't make it without significant government funding. Are government grants for the arts a bad thing now?
- esyir 5y agoThe current state of oss would be a counterpoint to this. That maintainers are often poorly supported implies what I suspect we're all trying not to acknowledge.
- foota 5y agoI think an interesting counter-counter point is the seeming success of video and board games crowdfunds, where hundreds of thousands of dollars seem to be fairly regularly collected, not that that rivals the scale of movie production.
- account42 5y ago> The current state of oss would be a counterpoint to this. The current state of OSS exists in a world with copyright. If you want to extrapolate that to a world without copyright you better have a good argument why the incentives for OSS funding would not change.