[Gllug] [OT] Support model for Linux vs M$

[Richard Jones]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 10:17:56AM +0000, Peter Childs wrote:
> If you rewrite copyright, they have to find another way to be paid. So
> it is actually quite difficult to change.

Why?  Do we have to pay the authors of Wikipedia?  Or Linux?  Or some
great videos on YouTube?  Or the dozens of brilliantly insightful
political bloggers (many better and more relevant than paid
journalists)?

This argument that authors "must" be paid is specious.  Firstly it
ignores all the great stuff that was written before copyright, eg. a
myriad of works of ancient and modern literature up until relatively
recently.  Secondly it demands payment for something that people don't
always feel like paying and often doesn't deserve it.  Lots of people
enjoy, say, watching athletics, yet sportspeople don't get paid for
their lifetime and their children's lifetime.  Many sportspeople don't
get paid very much at all and survive on government grants, second
jobs and love of their sport.

> W[h]ether you break the revenue cycle legally or illegally it
> still tops the money from flowing which causes everyone a problem
> sooner or later.

Why is it going to be "a problem sooner or later"?

Rich.

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