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

• grue@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why don’t you just gift away your software than?

  Because I don’t make those decisions; my employer does. They ought to give it away, but they don’t.

  (The software I’ve worked on has tended to be either (a) tools for internal company use or (b) stuff used by the government/large companies where the revenue would definitely have come from a support contract even if the code itself were free.)

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  • psud@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    ParsnipWitch seems to have been eaten by a grue.

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    • Dethedrus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s what happens when you forget to cast Frotz.

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  • ParsnipWitch@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So, you would work for free for your employer?

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    • grue@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That question is a red herring. My employer isn’t paying me to write software; they’re paying me to write the software they want instead of the software I want to make.

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• aniki@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I am a system engineer who works on a project that is open source, AMA

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• psud@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The writer whose article is the subject of this post releases his books without DRM. He ends his podcast with a quote encouraging piracy. I found him because of an earlier book he released under a share alike licence

  He has found that piracy increases the reach of his message, and increases his sales

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  • ParsnipWitch@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That doesn’t answer my questions.

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    • CmdrShepard@lemmy.one ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Your question is irrelevant as claiming “you either support 100% paid or you support 100% free distribution” is a false dichotomy.

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• db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Software developer who gives away my software for free as Free and Open Source Software. I agree with the grand-grand-parent comment.

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