rick888

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by rick888 16y ago
"Are we lobotomizing current culture, or merely freezing it in place with patents, copyrights and other "intellectual property" conceptions?" I have a different take on it. Patents, copyrights, and intellectual property increases the rate
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by rick888 16y ago
"Your making a chicken and egg argument. The reason the industry doesn't use Gimp is because no one in the industry uses Gimp. If a whole graduating class of students skipped Photoshop and used Gimp for price reasons then the picture could
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by rick888 16y ago
"I would love to see either side of the debate pull this argument away from the hypothetical realm. At least we know fairly objectively claims of economic harm caused by piracy are hyperbolic:" The same could be said about DRM.
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by rick888 16y ago
"If those same students could not pirate the latest version of Photoshop, they may well learn Gimp or PaintShopPro or something else, and use that once they get into the industry. This would affect Adobe's bottom line in reduced sales." Sin
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by rick888 16y ago
"There is a way, it's called the internet. They can put their music on their website and let paypal handle the transactions -- except people don't pay for it that way either and no one hears of the artist when they do..." Artists can still
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by rick888 16y ago
"It's time we move away from the stereotype "if people download my stuff, I lose money". Greatest majority of those who download would not be your customers." It's much more complicated than this.
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by rick888 16y ago
"That argument holds true for a literal florist but as an analogy to filesharing it really breaks down pretty quickly, after all the garden would never empty of flowers 'taken' if they were copied." Since copying is okay, is it okay to copy
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by rick888 16y ago
"You skipped over the word "marginal," Most pieces of software cost millions to develop, so I don't think it even applies.
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by rick888 16y ago
"I'm sympathetic to software devs, musicians, movie makers, etc. who don't want to see their work pirated, I really am. But as a customer, I FUCKING HATE being treated like a criminal when I try to play games, watch movies, etc. that I legi
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haha, love the fact that I'm down voted!
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"A related data point is the Humble Indie Bundle, which is a pay-anything (including $.01) software bundle that is experiencing fairly heavy levels of piracy." This shows further proof that the people bitching about DRM still won't pay for
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by rick888 16y ago
"The same thing happened with FM radio, the cassette tape, and the VCR. I sympathize to a certain degree with the record labels, but they're essentially just middlemen. Door-to-door vacuum salespeople were undoubtedly upset when the market
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by rick888 17y ago
""Will customers buy my product, and if so, at what price?" is an enormously non-trivial question, and the entire discipline of marketing revolves around trying to answer it." Very true. However, if you have sites on the Internet that are
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by rick888 17y ago
"The product itself _is_ the set of copyable bits, and this _is_ scarcity-free, due to having zero marginal cost of production." It doesn't have a $0 cost of production. Did it cost Microsoft $0 to develop windows? "The best possible solut
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by rick888 17y ago
"Why does it matter if it's "fair?" Our economy is based on value propositions—that's why we can charge 100x the price for a box labelled "enterprise edition" that contains a stream of bits no different than the one labelled "home edition."
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by rick888 17y ago
"With digital goods, copying is essentially free, so the creator doesn't lose anything, so one party gains while the other neither loses nor gains." This isn't true. When you steal physical goods..the original owner loses just the cost of
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by rick888 17y ago
"A citation ought to have been provided, but for most people interested in this topic the disparities in prosecutions and sentencing are so well known that it might not seem necessary." Here is an excerpt: "Whites are primarily sentenced to
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by rick888 17y ago
"A lot of things people ingest are toxic, the trick I feel is making that well known and public knowledge, not necessarily illegal. For example, the surgeon generals warning on the pack of a cigarette, or the chemical warnings on a bottle o
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by rick888 17y ago
"Regarding prosecuting black ones instead of white ones.. well we already do that, so I'd say the reality has surpassed both of us." After this statement, I can't really take you seriously. Do you have any proof beyond this statement? "How
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by rick888 17y ago
"I think you have to consider the sort of equilibriums that are created. If, over time, people observe that the set of people who create software are not the same set of people who are making money on it - maybe not even making a living wag
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by rick888 17y ago
"I feel that many people take it at face value and actually think that "the GPL forces to share modification", unconditionally." If you use GNU licensed software, you are required to give out all of your changes to anyone that asks. In add
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by rick888 17y ago
"With GPL software, you get the right to modify and distribute under certain conditions. With proprietary software you do not have those rights at all." With proprietary license, you are given a strict set of restrictions. The same goes fo
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by rick888 17y ago
"You're implying "commercialization" means "closed source". GPL'd as well as AGPL'd software can be sold. Others can download it, modify it, sell it as well, and make a lot of money off it. There's nothing wrong with that. As long as you ma
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by rick888 17y ago
"Ironic how commercially useful a tool for freedom can be, huh?" I find it ironic that people would associate the GNU with freedom, when it's anything but. The AGPL and GPL is about giving out your source code and telling people exactly ho
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by rick888 17y ago
"People who are reflexively anti-GPL tend not to know much about the security software industry, where intense VC funding and rafts of "me-too" products have plagued the major open source projects (Snort, Nessus, etc). If your code is ever
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by rick888 17y ago
vBSEO is just one example. They are lucky that vBulletin hasn't added this functionality to their main product line.
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by rick888 17y ago
It's interesting you say that considering Stallman's entire rant is about proprietary software that he has the freedom to just not use.
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by rick888 17y ago
"This is incorrect. Figurative book burning is an explicit design goal of the Kindle. Without it, Amazon would have a very difficult time getting major publishers to put their works on the Kindle. Even if your statement was correct, design
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Are you forced to only buy and use a Kindle? If you don't like the fact that amazon modifies or remotely deletes your books, don't buy it. How exactly are freedom of the press or speech in danger? The Internet pretty much has stopped any
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by rick888 17y ago
The GNU license requires all forks to also be open source. This means that I won't be able to add open source software to my proprietary application without all of my changes also being given out for free. The Free Software Foundation also

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