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intellectual property software.
dogsinafen:
Unless the software is designed to do something specific industry wise I have no problem getting a crack for it. Why even pay for software anyways? Do a quick research and you will probably find a similar FREE software that does the same thing as the payed one.
kyanwan:
Yes. I write software - I write applications. It is my work, it is my property.
Unless I'm paid to do it, and I agree to terms of a work for hire contract - then it's my employer's property.
If someone tried to take the stuff I wrote - and call it their own - I'd be pissed. If someone took something without my permission, and used it - I'd be pissed.
Just like an employer who paid me for full rights to work for hire - would be pissed if I resold it after I got my payment for it.
People need to get something out of their work, or there will be nothing to work for.
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But dogsinafen has a point - there are many free GPL products that do the same job as pay. Examples in point - I could go out and get a copy of windows server - however, I can get any linux build out there, and have a superior and more secure product.
Also, it is being used legally - with absolutely no worries for me.
There are free solutions for everything in the software world - so long as you can figure out how to use them. :)
[ That's where the money steps in. ]
For the pay products - you're paying for a package: software, support, updates - and a commercial backing to your product. If a product does NOT provide those things, then it is absolutely not worth paying for.
nstgc:
WHat you make is yours. The distinguishments made in that article are bull shit. Yes, an apple is an apple and an orange is not, but they are both still fruits.
fohfoh:
--- Quote from: Soryon on June 08, 2010, 09:44:31 AM ---
--- Quote from: fohfoh on June 08, 2010, 02:59:48 AM ---"Upgrades". Moron, go fuck a bike. It's like saying, "Charlie and the chocolate factory is what I bought, I should get Charlie and the big glass Elevator too." An upgrade can be seen as the second volume or the continuation of the original.
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um no.
an upgrade, how i meant it, is like getting a super sized meal at McDonalads... u still get the exact same thing, just a few tweaks, but u are trying to say that I am asking for something completely different just cuz it has its roots in the original. so yea, fail.
not that it matters. we are all members of a torrent site and complaining about intellectual property, thats a laff in itself.
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You're talking update vs upgrade. Your metaphor is edition, not volume. But even then, what examples are you using based on continuous payment? I sure can't think of an upgrade that occurs every few months for which you pay. Even antiviruses, you only update. Windows? Update.
Upgrade is going like XP to Vista to 7. Those types of differences.
Unless you're talking competing products, for which case it's a laughable thing considering something like, "I bought harry potter, give me twilight too." multiple copies of the same thing? Do you seriously need me to explain how classrooms don't pay for 1 book for a whole class but instead buy 30 or w/e it is for each kid?
Also, I was talking about the person in the article, not you.
Soryon:
--- Quote from: fohfoh on June 09, 2010, 12:58:19 AM ---
--- Quote from: Soryon on June 08, 2010, 09:44:31 AM ---
--- Quote from: fohfoh on June 08, 2010, 02:59:48 AM ---"Upgrades". Moron, go fuck a bike. It's like saying, "Charlie and the chocolate factory is what I bought, I should get Charlie and the big glass Elevator too." An upgrade can be seen as the second volume or the continuation of the original.
--- End quote ---
um no.
an upgrade, how i meant it, is like getting a super sized meal at McDonalads... u still get the exact same thing, just a few tweaks, but u are trying to say that I am asking for something completely different just cuz it has its roots in the original. so yea, fail.
not that it matters. we are all members of a torrent site and complaining about intellectual property, thats a laff in itself.
--- End quote ---
You're talking update vs upgrade. Your metaphor is edition, not volume. But even then, what examples are you using based on continuous payment? I sure can't think of an upgrade that occurs every few months for which you pay. Even antiviruses, you only update. Windows? Update.
Upgrade is going like XP to Vista to 7. Those types of differences.
Unless you're talking competing products, for which case it's a laughable thing considering something like, "I bought harry potter, give me twilight too." multiple copies of the same thing? Do you seriously need me to explain how classrooms don't pay for 1 book for a whole class but instead buy 30 or w/e it is for each kid?
Also, I was talking about the person in the article, not you.
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at any rate, i was drunk when I made that post, so im not even 100% sure what i was thinking at the time.
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