Comment on Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing"

• zerofk@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I work on software which is pirated. It is even sold by crackers, who make money off my work. This does not make me proud.

  What does make me proud is when a paying customer says they love a specific feature, or that our software saves them a lot of manual work.

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  • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • SaltySalamander@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Did you intentionally misunderstand the comment you replied to?

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      • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I think I replied to the wrong comment

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• satan@r.nf ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’d be happy that it’s popular enough for that to happen.

  of course you would. you would actually give them your house and wife, because you’re so proud now. right?

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  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ah yes, because downloading Shark_Tale.mp4 is exactly the same as someone taking your house away from you and obtaining your wife and having them as personal property.

    Get some fucking perspective. I usually try to be polite online but this is just straight up moronic and you need to be told so bluntly.

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  • irmoz@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Lmao

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• poopkins@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Pride unfortunately doesn’t pay the bills. It’s terrific that you contribute to open source, but not all commercial software can be open sourced.

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  • psud@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Popularity opens other ways to make money. Open source is profitable for GNU. Cory Doctorow does fine.

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    • poopkins@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect every commercial product to find profitability through exposure. I can attest to this first hand as I had published an open source Android game that was republished without ads. This led me to ultimately make the repository private, because I could not find a way to remain profitable while offering the source code and bearing the costs of labor and various cloud services.

      On the flip side I guess I can take credit for the millions of installs from the other app… except they didn’t publicly acknowledge me.

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      • psud@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Was it under a “copyleft” licence (like GPL) that forces the other one to also be open source? Did you use a licence that requires you are acknowledged?

        If you did the first, you at least pulled someone else into open source work

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  • ParsnipWitch@feddit.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Most people who work on open source projects have a lucrative job and work on Open Source on the side. I also volunteer, but I still need a job that actually pays me as well.

    Reading some of the comments here it feels like speaking to little children who believe money magically appears on their account.

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• aksdb@feddit.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Tell me which so I can develop a competing service and steal your userbase!

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