On 18/05/10 05:36, Casper Bang wrote:
I'm going to say one more really mean thing that will piss everyone
off: when you have a community that has repeatedly made it clear that
it is not willing to pay for stuff, and whose intellectual leadership
rails against the concept of intellectual property itself, it probably
cuts into the business prospects of trying to sell media to this
audience.
Once again you're painting with very broad strokes here. The Linux
culture is quite a bit more diverse than the high-priest mono-culture
you are suggesting. I count myself lucky to be living in a country
where media standards are not dictated simply by the de-factory
proprietary format, and I have no issue whatsoever paying for
software. There are more moderate views than those pushed by Richard
Stallman i.e. try to see what Novell and Miguel de Icaza are doing.
Linux dominates servers, is about to dominate the smartphone marked...
I think it's a grave mistake to disregard desktop Linux on those
merits.
Only a small detail, but check out the statistics box on the Humble
Indie Bundle: http://www.wolfire.com/humble
Linux users were the ones who gave the most, more than 80% ahead of the
Windows crows, more than 42% (sic) ahead of the MacOS folks. Admittedly
it's small monetary amounts, but to me it seems to show that not
everyone who using Linux is doing it to avoid paying money. And with
more than 138k contributions it is a pretty decent population size for a
statistic.
I personally think most people who want to save money on software
licenses use pirated copies of Windows. I use Linux for the better
product and better service.
Peter
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