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2010-03-03
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Originally Posted by azorni
You also pay for goods or services 'only' because it is required by the seller, not because you like it
Well, I meant : apart from this licence agreement, of course.
I've already wrote that, as long as you agreed to end user license, you gave your word and you have to stick to it.
But it 's a word you gave only because it was required by the seller, I don't see any ethical or economic justification to it.
But seriously, software is tricky business, it's very difficult to measure the 'added value', or justification as you put it. I know we established analogies suck, but think about this way. Imagine public transportation. You have the option of buying a ticket or walk. Instead, you just jump over guardrails, claiming you only want to 'test' the system and that you will buy a ticket at the end destination if you like it, or claim that if could not get in without a ticket, you would have not used the system anyway. The transport company has the same costs regardless if they have 1 or 100 passengers per carriage, so you might think it doesn't matter.
Now, for those that DO buy a ticket, what you are asking is, why is it bad if you buy a ticket and then let in 99 of your buddies in for free ? Because at 1 customer per ride, the system is not profitable. If none of your buddies would have paid anyway, the system is doomed as it's not sustainable at that ticket price. If some would have paid, but didn't, the system is also doomed, as they lost revenue. Only paying customers make THIS particular business model viable. Alternatively, they could turn to subscription, or, the easy way, just tax everybody (not really a win, eh ?).
That's why many systems have complex admission systems and/or people checking passenger tickets occasionally - they are the transport company's equivalent DRM. Does the guy who checks your ticket bother you ? He could penalize you - you might have bought a proper ticket and misplaced it. Paranoid companies might employ hidden X-Ray machines to check on you. Your actions while using the system might be supervised via camers. But the bottom line is the same - whether you are bothered by tickets or not, your choice is to USE or NOT USE the transport system. You can protest in front of the company about terms, prices, but you DO NOT GET TO RIDE WITHOUT A TICKET WHATEVER THE 'REASON'. This also applies to copying - I hope I don't have to explain why copying tickets for your buddies is a problem ?
My suggestion is to get a bicycle. Clean, free and keeps you in shape
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2010-03-03
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#153
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Originally Posted by fatalsaint
/dev/null my *** I forwarded them all to the ecrimes division of my local police. Which resulted in a 12 year old boy begging me to drop the charges - this after he threated to kill me, rape my wife and kill my child. If I had it in my power I wouldnt simply have had him charged I would have beaten the little **** within an inch of his life.
I've never been that popular with my software to have to deal with that. The model I came up with originally when I wrote some software a while back and had it on my website (since removed because I stopped maintaining them) - was that if someone requests a specific feature or wants something into it that wasn't there... they can donate.
Bug fixes, or things not working as advertised - I take on as my responsibility for writing the software broken. Adding anything to it... well - it's free. So if I get the time.. maybe.. if not - you can either Donate to me, which will make me care what you think.. or write your own. I did.
Death threat emails would go straight to /dev/null.
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2010-03-03
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#154
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Originally Posted by Bratag
Depends. In the case of WoW and Eve you are connecting to a Server owned and operating by someone else. That's what I consider the money per month to going to. Them keeping those servers online.. not the game itself.
So all paid software should be pay by month based - hell thats fine with me.
And as I said.. in WoW you can download and install the game.. and play on a Free WoW server and never pay a dime.
I don't mind supporting wow once they made the installer available for download. I had bought the original WoW discs forever ago and have since lost them.. and I refused to re-buy them. Once the installer was easily obtainable.. now I just pay them while I use their service, and don't when I don't. I'm not paying "for the game" in my mind, I'm paying for them to keep the servers up so I can play on them.
Something like Fallout 3 I admit.. there's no middle ground. You aren't always connected to their servers.. but something as graphically intensive and world-in-depth as that game took 1000's upon 1000's of hours to build. People need compensation.
Personally.. I think the problem is not that they need money but that people don't donate. I don't think requiring pay software, or enforcing DRM are the way to go - I think people that use software should be more giving if they like and actually *use* it.
Unfortunately... the latter isn't happening - forcing people to do the former - forcing people like me to have to make a decision on whether or not I want to support that company or writer.
For games.. I'm more lenient: I'll buy a game if it natively supports Linux. I got to pick my battles here...
For normal office/desktop software - I won't pay for it. There's a free alternative somewhere or I'll write it myself.
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2010-03-03
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#155
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Originally Posted by Fargus
I wrote : « a grammar book is still a book ».
The grammer is not the book. By creating a book you are documenting the standard. Are you actually this dense or just trolling? I've shown your posts to several French guys here in case it was a language issue and they are of the same opinion.
This is metalanguage concept and this should not be ignored by a software engineer. I'm quite surprised.
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2010-03-03
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#156
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Originally Posted by Bratag
Hah.. it appears I'm not the only one that's had a teen arrested before. Win.
/dev/null my *** I forwarded them all to the ecrimes division of my local police. Which resulted in a 12 year old boy begging me to drop the charges - this after he threated to kill me, rape my wife and kill my child. If I had it in my power I wouldnt simply have had him charged I would have beaten the little **** within an inch of his life.
I had one threaten to assassinate the president in an IRC network I run.. went straight to NCIS (I was in the navy at the time so they were the on-base security and that's where I lived.) who sent it up.
You're correct though.. death threats should go to ecrimes.. not ignored. I stand corrected
. And I also agree that the kid deserved a little one on one time with a rabid and hungry pit bull...
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2010-03-03
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#157
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Originally Posted by fatalsaint
Good for you, you are actually earning your play though by contributing usage data so it's not free, someone else is paying for you.
For Music I've actually switched to Pandora Radio. It's simply easier.. and it's free
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Originally Posted by fatalsaint
So becuase you have bought some then you feel you are entitled to all, even though you may not have contributed anything to the people whi's work you are using? Rather selfish really.
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Unfortunately... there is no alternative to movies. I like movies.. and nobody can make me feel guilty that I have some movies on my hard drive of my computer that I stream to my TV over an HDMI cable (using Ubuntu, I might add).
First off... I have bought copies of the vast majority of them..
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Originally Posted by fatalsaint
A lot of publishers will replace the media for you, so this is not an excuse.
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I simply prefer watching something that isn't going to totally break on me.. requiring that I once again have to pay to get something I already had because it was built in such cheap quality.
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Originally Posted by fatalsaint
But by taking a copy without paying for it you are saying exactly that! If you can't afford something then either find an alternative or save up for it! Everything in life has a cost associated with it, maybe it is about time you started paying for your costs too. I can't afford some of the items in life that I would like to own too but I dn't just take them and then decide not to pay for them. Just because someone else removed the barrier to obtaining this it made it ok? So if someone looted a store and offered you the items at a knock down price would you think that acceptable too? (I suspect you would).
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ETA: This also happened with software for me. I used to use windows.. and yes I'll admit I used Pirated software because as a teen I couldn't afford the expensive stuff. Does that mean the developers time wasn't worth it? No.. but I couldn't afford it.. and since it was out there I didn't make myself suffer just to feel not-guilty at night.
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Originally Posted by fatalsaint
Excellent - at last you aren't ripping anyone off I hope! Shame it isn't becuase you have improved your morals!
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Since I've switched to Linux things are significantly better.. I don't use any pirated software - because I can completely avoid using any pay software. I don't buy anything off of Google Market for my Android either.
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2010-03-03
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#158
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@Bratag: Dude, you've gotta tell us what kind of software you wrote to wind up a 12 yrs old that bad
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2010-03-03
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Originally Posted by azorni
Why is this different? Software on DVD's are a signifanct part of the content too.
Well I don't buy nor play games.
And as for DVD, this is another topic, but not much different.
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Originally Posted by azorni
So support the open source software and don't ripp off the commercial sector. If open source works better then the model will change but don't be a hypocrite.
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Well, as long as open source software does exist, I wonder wether retail software industry is really necessary and desirable.
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Originally Posted by azorni
I have investment banks amongst my customers too but what tools were you using in your development? If you used the MS stack at any point that is retail software!
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Well, I've earned quite a lot of money as software engineer in an investment bank and now I live on stock markets. But this is digression, personal life of people should not be used in a debate.
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2010-03-03
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Originally Posted by azorni
Nokia is actually still living on it's IP though unless you have missed all the information about the legal wrangles between Apple and Nokia? nokia are also not selling Maemo, they are selling the hardware which is definately not open for all.
I doubt it would be the end of the world.
Also, since you mention Nokia, please notice that this firm has made a huge step towards open source.
As far as i'm concerned, I had no smartphone but as soon as I heard about the N900 with a version of debian inside, I immediately went to a store and bought it cash.
So my guess is that Nokia has made quite some money with this open source software.
Bug fixes, or things not working as advertised - I take on as my responsibility for writing the software broken. Adding anything to it... well - it's free. So if I get the time.. maybe.. if not - you can either Donate to me, which will make me care what you think.. or write your own. I did.
Death threat emails would go straight to /dev/null.
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