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Unfortunately, that’s a great argument… from anyone who has never run an online business, or developed a game, or written professional software. It’s so on the
by gjsman-1000 3y ago
Unfortunately, that’s a great argument… from anyone who has never run an online business, or developed a game, or written professional software. It’s so on the nose absurd in the logical conclusions of its worldview, that it’s a total nonstarter.
I’m not saying I like the current regime; I’m saying this ain’t the solution.
- Kim_Bruning 3y agoNina Paley knows exactly what she's talking about, and she's trying to explain it to you here. Much of the current internet is based on Free/Libre/Open Source Software at least somewhere in the stack. Of the world's top 10 most visited websites, at least one is 100% Creative Commons. Several others have large chunks of FLOSS in the software stack. Feel free to disbelieve, but be aware that you've already been out-competed by people who DO participate in and/or make use of our digital commons (fairly or unfairly).
- raspyberr 3y agoNina Paley has made comics, films, shorts, and she sells merchandise. Clearly something's working for her.
- iopq 3y agoI've ran an online business If we released our source code it would do absolutely nothing, since you don't have our business partners or customer base. All you could do is publish pages that look like ours