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by rick888 16y ago
"Money doesn’t motivates us to help each other with R" This might be the case. However, If you aren't paying someone for development, they will most likely only be able to work on your project after the bills are paid (and if they are marr
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by rick888 16y ago
"Now about your last statement: you and every other person would try to poach the leaders. Here is the fundamental flaw with that business model: should someone be actually innovative, you could never catch them. You would constantly be los
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by rick888 16y ago
"Now about your last statement: you and every other person would try to poach the leaders. Here is the fundamental flaw with that business model: should someone be actually innovative, you could never catch them. You would constantly be los
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by rick888 16y ago
"A side note: your juxtaposition of Identity theft and Car theft is very misleading and strawmany, given that the next line was about theft of services, a situation much more akin to ID theft. Please try to make your points slightly less il
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by rick888 16y ago
"If I take your car, without permission, it is stealing it. Very obviously you have been deprived of your car." Should we change the term "identity theft". Technically, it's not theft at all and nothing has been taken from you. If I have a
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"Merely that marginal cost does absolutely play a role and that people are really driving it down" Which isn't true. The marginal cost of copying random bits is the same as the marginal cost of copying Microsoft windows. The piracy culture
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"Software and Music are not exact duplicates, musicians can and do get paid to perform live" ..and those live performances are also pirated. How exactly is adobe photoshop CS5 all over the bittorrent networks not an exact copy of the one a
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by rick888 16y ago
no..handicap..as in a deficient immune system that gives you a distinct disadvantage at life.
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"Internet savy and those who are aware of the nature of software economic already realize this" The youth of today are Internet savvy. As time goes on, there will be less and less people that don't know how to find software, music online (
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by rick888 16y ago
so what is your argument? I don't really see one in your post, so I was adding to the discussion.
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by rick888 16y ago
"Look at pirates who offer download of vista for free on bittorrent." Microsoft is one of the largest software companies in the world. They can afford to take the hit with piracy. The thousands of other smaller companies that sell softwar
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by rick888 16y ago
"which are often inferior products due to inconvenient access" It's interesting because DRM and the "inconvenient access" you speak of were created as a direct result of mass piracy.
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by rick888 16y ago
"On the contrary, free stuff is the overriding trend for stuff that have the marginal cost of replication close to zero. It is not so much culture that is driving it, but the economic forces that does." Currency also has little value (and i
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by rick888 16y ago
Some of the comments for this are interesting. A few people said that bandcamp was making the wrong decisions and that they were becoming more like the big labels. I think what many people don't realize is that to run a service like this (
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It also serves as a warning to other people that might give away information on FB that will lead thieves right to their house.
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by rick888 16y ago
"It's not about more taxes, necessarily, it's that everyone should pay their "fair share", not some people pay 50%" I wish this was the case in the US. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Nearly-half-of-US-households-a... Nearly 50% of US house
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by rick888 16y ago
"Are you presenting this as an argument with my article? I am confused, as you seem to be arguing most of the time with other people's words and not my own." You seem to like to add other people's words in your article as to convey a certai
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by rick888 16y ago
"That isn't socialism, but boy does it feel like workers being more efficient when they seize the means of production—the compiler—rather than being coerced or exploited." How are workers being "exploited" just based on the fact that they w
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by rick888 16y ago
For all my personal stuff, I use: http://www.visualsvn.com/ for the server (there is a free version). plus http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/ for the client. It works very well for all of my personal project and doesn't really require too m
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by rick888 16y ago
".. are you suggesting that Americans are inherently more stupid than Europeans?" No. I'm suggesting that there will always be stupid and lazy people wherever you go. Many countries in Europe attempt to legislate it away by taking away by
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by rick888 16y ago
"Oh, lovely, we’re very racist, are we? Compared to what, USA? I hear the same anti-muslim, anti-mosque rants from Americans that I hear from fellow Swedes" FYI: muslin isn't a race. "You complain about illegal immigrants, we complain Easte
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"Excuse me but where did that "ignorance is bliss" come from?" People that don't have freedom and are stuck in one system don't know what they are missing. "But the number of people that can afford those in the USA is so small that when you
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"And what makes people eat crappy food in the US? Could it be that crappy food is sold starting from the school's cafeteria? Could it be that people don't have enough time to cook or eat at better restaurants?" Crappy school food does need
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Ignorance is bliss. I would rather have the chance of making it big (or fail) than have the government take most of it away with huge taxes and strict rules that make it really difficult to have a successful business. "It includes things li
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he has. He makes ~$30,000/year (before taxes). Not only is this not "rich", most people couldn't survive on it. It's even worse if you have a family.
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"You do realize that the US has higher unemployment rates than any of those three countries? And, yeah, it's not always easy to find a job and there have been layoffs, but there's a bit of a worldwide recession." You do realize that many of
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"High taxes and expensive social programs seem to work in Germany, Denmark, Sweden, ..." Give them time. Talk to people in those countries. It's very difficult to find a job right now in any of those countries. Not to mention the fact tha
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Greece is a good example of what happens with an over-reaching government, high taxes, and expensive social programs. If things continue, the US won't be far behind.
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"Mom and Pop is where we need to go, in terms of our future business and development outlook support to end the threats to net neutrality and shoddy/arbitrarily wrong/and unethical big businesses dominating our social landscape..." Many mom
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"Some people are exploited in ways that are horrific compared to how other people are exploited. But until we have words specifically to describe white-collar workers, I'm going to use the available words that I think are most apt." I reali

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