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by cschwarm 16y ago
Sorry. I've misunderstood you, then. I wonder what the girl would have said if her boyfriend broke his promise to not publish some private photos of her, and shared these with his friends (and with others on a public website). That's obviou
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by cschwarm 16y ago
> He has not convinced me that there's any reason he should have that right. OK, suppose your girlfriend agrees to have you take some rather private photos of her under the condition that you will never make these available to someone e
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by cschwarm 16y ago
> All of which argue from a base of scarcity which doesn't exist in the venue he's suddenly found himself. Sure, his analogies fail at some point, just like most analogies. But that doesn't make his point invalid. Or yours valid, for th
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by cschwarm 16y ago
I've got no sympathy for their position. It's not as if the development of the e-book market was a total surprise, wasn't it? They could have made the appropriate steps years ago. But they simply didn't bother or they were unable to coopera
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by cschwarm 16y ago
You might be interested in the following discussion and reference: http://www.law.washington.edu/lct/swp/Law/derivative.html
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by cschwarm 16y ago
> The open question is why anyone would buy software for Linux. Well, I'd be interested in one of the following apps: a desktop wiki, an email client, a contact management app, a feed reader, a music player, a scalable image editor, a l
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by cschwarm 16y ago
True. But some moral systems are consequentialistic [1] and for its proponents, the means are justified by the ends. A free market could be seen as a means to reach the moral end. Thus, they are often mixed up. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org
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by cschwarm 17y ago
I meant the Huffington Post is a good example to make/use 'celebrities' in their 'Featured Blog Posts' section.
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by cschwarm 17y ago
I also think the future value of news is in the relationship to journalists and reporters. They need to become 'celebrities' to a certain degree. The Huffington Post is a good example. However, I think the transaction costs of crowd-sourcin
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by cschwarm 17y ago
> ... custom software is more than 90% of all software out there. I've read this in several variations for years. But I've never seen a reference. Is this just a myth or can anyone point to real research which provides evidence for the
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by cschwarm 17y ago
You assume the rich of a stable state to be the same people who are rich in an unstable state. That's unlikely. Example: In an unstable sociaty, many less well off people are likely to spend more of their income for guns and other means for
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by cschwarm 17y ago
> "Information wants to be free" has a kernel of truth in it; "free" is the most natural state for information. It can be copied easy, quickly, and cheaply. The argument basically says "what is, ought to be, too!" But there's no logical
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by cschwarm 17y ago
Because that's what they are. From Wikipedia: "Dogma is the established belief or doctrine held by a religion, ideology or any kind of organization: it is authoritative and not to be disputed, doubted or diverged from." Some examples: * 4 r
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by cschwarm 17y ago
And what you call principles, I call dogmata.
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by cschwarm 17y ago
It's a good idea but it doesn't consider transaction costs. That's the main problem. Imaging you're a reader with US$ 1000 per year to spend on books: how do spend it if there's a large supply of book offers like these?
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by cschwarm 17y ago
"While old media produces sequel after unoriginal sequel of movies, and clone musicians to push on us, the information age has spawned a new age of creativity." A common rationalization, but I believe, it's a straw men argument. For who's r
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by cschwarm 17y ago
I believe it will continue to grow but not as fast as it needs to be any serious competitor to Windows or MacOS in 2010. It still lacks a good-enought variety of (proprietary) third-party applications and games. This is what most of the you
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by cschwarm 17y ago
The same holds true for free software: It may die although some people still care. All it needs is the lack of developers. Hiring someone to maintain software is usually bloody expensive and organizing a fund raiser has high transaction cos
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by cschwarm 17y ago
In which case, it will be sold -- either by him or by his heirs -- and continues to exists.
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by cschwarm 17y ago
Quite the contrary [1]: The assumption that proprietary software is "immoral", "unethical" and "evil" is very much the heart and soul of the Free Software Movement. To say it's not, sometimes, would contradict this assumption and make it in
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by cschwarm 17y ago
No, I don't think so. The reason why there's no system to license 'The Final Countdown' is probably that it wouldn't pay. I mean, come on! How many people would really watch a guys video unboxing his laptop? This is a nice for his handful o
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by cschwarm 17y ago
Yes, convenience is a big plus for illegally downloaded music. But I believe, some sort of middleman will remain in the digital world. Their value proposition is reducing transaction costs -- the costs associated with finding content that's
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by cschwarm 17y ago
I sort of agree, but I also think you're over-reacting. Here's why: Determine value is incredibly hard, thus many people use other attributes as a signal of value: Sometimes it's appearance, sometimes scarcity, sometimes hearsay, and rather
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by cschwarm 17y ago
Short summery of his conclusion: People would use permissively licensed content and commercial content publishers would die if they wouldn't adopt. Well, I wouldn't be bet on that. Maybe, the author of this piece would do so, and maybe quit
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by cschwarm 17y ago
Well, this is basically the essence of the political views of the Free Software movement, according to Mr. Stallman's essays and other statements. Many supporters don't get this, though. Mr. Stallman repeatedly called proprietary software "
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by cschwarm 17y ago
It would be a signal. In the long run, it would affect what sort of contributors and users GNOME would have -- people from the Open Source camp who think proprietary software is a nuisance but not "immoral" or "evil" as Mr. Stallman suggest
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by cschwarm 17y ago
I assume you meant promotion; the term marketing usually includes product (design), price, placement (ie. distribution) and promotion. Making marketing decisions is basically the same thing as making any decision: You need to determine your
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by cschwarm 17y ago
I wish someone would write "Web Designers Can't Sell", for that's probably a more useful reminder for many people who offer goods via a web page.
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by cschwarm 17y ago
That's surely an interesting idea, but I doubt it's doable. First, you assume to know why visitors bounce (the "website wasn't what they were looking for"). That's quite a jump since bounce rates are about behaviour, not the causes leading
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by cschwarm 17y ago
Django Lean could be added to the list: http://bitbucket.org/akoha/django-lean/wiki/Home

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