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there are other motivations besides getting paid cf. open source, fan fiction, wikipedia
by milkshakes 12y ago
there are other motivations besides getting paid
cf. open source, fan fiction, wikipedia
- vertex-four 12y agoThe majority of open source software is written so that somebody can make money off it. It just happens that what they're making money off of isn't the software itself, the software is a means to an end. Have you ever found fan fiction that spanned upwards of three hundred pages, was actually well written, and was not written for profit?
- jessaustin 12y agohttp://hpmor.com/ http://hpmor.com/ http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/06/11/1-1/ http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/06/11/1-1/
- protomyth 12y agoAllowing people to make money from what they are good at seems to work best. Ask authors about having to cram writing into little blocks of time outside of a job that they would rather not be doing. Other motivations are fine, but people got to survive. Looking a Linux, it seems most commits are by people getting paid.
- moron4hire 12y agoThe extremely restrictive version of copyright that we have today is not necessary to get authors paid. Far, far from it.
- chrismcb 12y agoOther than length of time (which is way too long), how is today's copyright extremely restrictive? and how can it be made less restrictive and still remain a copyright?