cschwarm

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by cschwarm 17y ago
Here's a counter model for newspapers (and the media industry, in general) to free: Start a club and grant access to (full online) texts to club members, only. Keep a fixed percentage of the revenue for administration. Say, 30 or 40 percent
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by cschwarm 17y ago
I personally find the 'Non sequitur' more obvious: "If we lose the use of C#, we will lose them [applications written in C#] too." It's obviously possible to port C# applications to other programming languages. One example is Tomboy, which
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by cschwarm 17y ago
> "Do you really think that the stability, low cost and quality of Open Source software is independent of the Free Software ideology?" Well, I do. Open Source is basically just Economics. An initial release of source code happens becaus
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by cschwarm 17y ago
Assuming your premise is correct: What did you expect? The origin of modern America dates back about 400 years, the origin of Europe about 2000 years. Also, the reason for many early US immigrants was to escape ancient European social struc
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by cschwarm 17y ago
I think you got a point, namely that the initial question is flawed, but I don't agree entirely. Anarchists might want no government, at all. However, even anarchists could participate on the side, for example by making a general suggestion
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by cschwarm 17y ago
I suppose you think that maths is no science, then? After all, there's no empirical proof that any mathematical statement is true. Even simple statements like, for example, C/r = Pi cannot be verified empirically. Following your argument, m
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by cschwarm 17y ago
In the social sciences, it's usual to use an operational definition [1]. For many variables are constructs [2] and they cannot be observed directly. The authors of the above paper seem to have used different operational definitions, and the
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by cschwarm 17y ago
Well, that's my point. ;) The rhetorics about "bad" major labels (or "mega-cooperations" as Stallman likes to call software companies) is just that: rhetorics. However, there would still be an important difference: Club members are less lik
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by cschwarm 17y ago
I think your point of view is too idealistic. You're attributing too much responsibility to the record companies. Sure, a handful of them dominate the market and their oligopoly has negative effects. But the economic attributes of the produ
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by cschwarm 17y ago
As a hobby programmer I had the same problem some years ago. IMHO, any programming language currently used to write web apps enables you to write "solid" web apps. But I am wondering why you find all tutorials to be "abstract" although you
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by cschwarm 18y ago
Well, what do you consider a proper explanation? The core theory is in fact quite simple: People have a (serious) problem to solve and the text presents the product as a solution to these problems by pointing out its benefits. In other word
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by cschwarm 18y ago
Yes, maybe you could sell one or two or maybe a hundred copies but hardly any more. The more successful your fork, the more likely it's going to be packaged and distributed by the one of the top distributions for FREE. The higher your sales
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by cschwarm 18y ago
Notes from a copywriting point of view: (1) Switch the first two paragraphs: Nobody cares what shopialize.com is, but what problems it solves. (2) Remove the passive voice of the second paragraph. Suggestion: "Tell your friends about new pr
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by cschwarm 18y ago
I don't think focusing the discussion would help. The problems I see are the following: (1) The question -- when properly understood -- is empirical by nature. One would need to select a random sample in both fields, measure the innovation
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by cschwarm 18y ago
I'm living in Europe -- Germany to be exact -- but never noticed any "elitist" European-style system for a University degree. So I digged out some numbers. This is hard to translate, so my apologies for bad grammer. In Germany in 2006, 43,4
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by cschwarm 18y ago
If the parent poster is correct to point out some flaws in the original article, what makes you think I am not correct when I point out some flaws in the parent poster's comment? However, I do agree with you that words and ideologies have m
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by cschwarm 18y ago
I didn't read the original article completely but your reply is just a "No True Scotsman" fallacy: Positions you don't agree with, are "no true Libertarian" positions. But how do you know what all Libertarians truly believe? For instance, y
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by cschwarm 18y ago
Your question assumes that "the more inventions, the better for sociaty". While this may have been true for the last five hundred years, maybe it's time to reconsider the assumption? This may sound foolish but please consider: What is more
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by cschwarm 18y ago
I believe he didn't think much, but just wanted to rant. It's easy to see that an interference from the attribute of one good to the attribute of another is usually not sound. For example, just because bricks are commodities doesn not mean
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by cschwarm 18y ago
Note the homepage for the book: http://www.predictablyirrational.com/ has a 'reseach' section where you can download many if not all of the original papers.
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by cschwarm 18y ago
Well, we seem to agree on some issues: Not all philosophy is bad or useless. Some might be. So, let's say "Some philosophy is useless." PG presents a few quotes and we may conclude, he proved his point. But did he present any useless philos
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by cschwarm 18y ago
Thanks for your critical thoughts. That's holds for you as well as gambling8nt, straiberman and kragen. I'll try to answer some of your objections. (1) You're right that "sample of 1" is an expression found in experimental science. But how
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by cschwarm 18y ago
What a poor reply. Paul Graham's essay can easily be dismissed. Some examples: 1) Graham found philosophy not useful and didn't understand it. This is basically a sample size of 1. Is this a meaningful sample or just a confirmation bias (or
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by cschwarm 18y ago
"... in most cases, the people using pirated software would not pay for it if it would be not be possible to use it without buying." In economic theory, the demand curve is (basically) constructed from the willingness-to-pay (WTP) of people
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by cschwarm 18y ago
The service you're asking for is traditionally provided by tailors. This is rather common for dress shirts and suits. There are also online stores for dress shirts where you can submit measurements and have you shirt send to you a few weeks
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by cschwarm 18y ago
Sorry for the misunderstanding. I thought you meant selling open source, in general, not just to end users. You know, I'm glad you submitted your post here. I'm currently working on an article about a similiar topic. The discussion has been
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by cschwarm 18y ago
You may like to look at the license used by TheKompany [1]. [1] http://www.thekompany.com/products/licensing.php3
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by cschwarm 18y ago
I believe he misses some important points: (1) The core problem are professional "free-riders" -- Linux distributions being the main candidates. As soon as they include his software in their repositories, his sales will probably stop to inc