If we didn’t have copyright then people wouldn’t be able to justify putting effort into creating content because they wouldn’t be guaranteed financial compensation for the time and effort they put in.
The irony of saying this on Lemmy. Lemmy is piece of software developed and distributed for free to people who host it for free. If somebody truly wants to make something they will create it even without profit incentive.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Scale Lemmy to the size of Reddit and we’ll see if good Samaritans are still willing to host it for free.
ayaya@lemdro.id 4 weeks ago
That’s not really relevant to the discussion. The numbers of users doesn’t matter. The point is that people will still create things even if there’s no money in doing it.
Jellyfin is another example of something I use every day that is completely developed for free. The is no difference whether 100 people or 100 million people use it. It exists because the people who built it want it to exist.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
It is relevant, free development/services is nice and all, but when you’re spending all your time doing it at some point you still need to eat and that requires money so what do you do? You either give up on the free stuff or reduce the amount of time you spend doing it so you can find a job meaning you lose practice and aren’t at good at it.
I’m sorry to tell you but the people who are the best at what they do don’t do it for free, the reason they’re the best is that they can afford to do it full time because they make a living off it.
vala@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Most open source devs make good money as software engineers and devlop FOSS in their free time.
You are conflating having basic needs met with needing compensation. People dont need to be compensated finacially if their needs are already met.
So I think you really might mean “People with unmet needs can’t work for free”