>Tell me slowpoke about the great wonders of Ubuntu and Gimp and every other crappy open source clone of proprietary software. I don't feel obliged to answer t

>Tell me slowpoke about the great wonders of Ubuntu and Gimp and every other crappy open source clone of proprietary software. I don't feel obliged to answer this. Please keep your flame-bait to yourself. >Just because a product is made of bits instead of atoms doesn't mean the product didn't cost capital to create and require revenue to continue being created. You're conflating creation with distribution, in addition to a basic sweat of the brow fallacy. Just because you worked doesn't mean you are entitled to payment - else I will hereby demand you to pay me forty two fantastillion dollars for reading my comment, because that's what I value my work done here. See where this is going? I still don't see how it's in any way reasonable to create artificial monopolies over a good that isn't scarce. Business models come and go with technological progress, and I do not think the copyright industry is the first to be entitled to an exception to the detriment of the rest of mankind. >Sure right after we figure out a better system than capitalism for digital goods and get everyone to agree to it. Yep. Such as the emerging service-based information society. :)