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Jenda:
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how is using non-free software any worse than buying a DVD or CD? Film and record companies make a lot of money too you know.
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There is no alternative, besides piracy. This could be called art, and that's different from SW.
Kintaro:
--- Quote from: Jenda ---There is no alternative, besides piracy. This could be called art, and that's different from SW.
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Personally I think art should be free (as in freedom) as well, as do a lot of people. That is why there are Creative Commons licences and Indie musicians that use them for example. However for things that are expensive to produce like motion pictures, it can be questionable. However if people in the movie industry were not shallow and selfish they could easily pull off a free movie. In fact it has been done, Micheal Moore gave people permission to pirate Farhenhiet 9/11.
Aloone_Jonez:
Some people would call software art.
I don't see anything wrong with people writing software and not wanting to share it, I earn money and I don't share most of it. I don't see any difference in writing software in order to make money and not sharing either the money or the software.
This seems verry silly, someone releases a film and I suspect most of here won't have a problem with paying to see it at the cinma, but if a piece of non-free software released you're like OMG non-free software this is evil!
Aloone_Jonez:
--- Quote from: kintaro ---Personally I think art should be free (as in freedom) as well, as do a lot of people. That is why there are Creative Commons licences and Indie musicians that use them for example. However for things that are expensive to produce like motion pictures, it can be questionable. However if people in the movie industry were not shallow and selfish they could easily pull off a free movie. In fact it has been done, Micheal Moore gave people permission to pirate Farhenhiet 9/11.
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That's an interesting concept, my point of view is just because someone doesn't want their creation to be free it doesn't make them evil.
piratePenguin:
--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---That's the same if they any infringe any other licence agrement.
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Exactly.
--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---Suppose I write a program and decide to sell it for
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