throwaway4799

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by throwaway4799 8y ago
I don't think I was in any way abusing. I said that your attitude does not inspire goodwill or good sentiments. You're trying to make money, like everyone. That's fine, not everyone is a monster for not writing free software,
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by throwaway4799 8y ago
Linux is quite spread already. It is present on billions of Android devices, holds a quasi-monopoly on supercomputers, a large majority of servers and a quite fair chunks of embedded systems. "But it doesn't run games or Excel on
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by throwaway4799 8y ago
Are you implying that the author is so much reliant on this specific business model that they would likely end up homeless and starving to death if they were deprived of it?
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by throwaway4799 8y ago
Free labor is distinct from free software and it is misleading to conflate the two. Plenty of people are paid to work on free software, and I'm not talking about Red Hat or SUSE either. See: 90% of the Linux kernel contributors. As for
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by throwaway4799 8y ago
No one is entitled to a business model. If your userbase has a culture of being (rightfully, in my opinion) defiant toward proprietary products, that's for you to remedy. If you can't make any money from ancilliary uses of you
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by throwaway4799 8y ago
You're literally wrong. Intellectual property can't be stolen by definition. You're probably referring to copyright infringement which is a completely different thing from theft, whose application is completely different fr
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by throwaway4799 8y ago
You're right. That's why no one ever makes anything in China. In fact, no one makes anything ever if they don't have the byzantine American copyright system to back them up.