begin quoting Tracy R Reed as of Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 04:13:20PM -0700: > Druppy wrote: > > How does a company recoop R&D investments? Let say we spend $3million > > and 5 years making a game and release it as open source. What is stopping > >a bunch of server farms from running our stuff for free without ever > >having spent a dime on R&D and thus being able to sell the service for > >much less. > > Most people sell advertising to support stuff like that it seems. Other > than that perhaps you just can't make money that way. I'm fine with > that. There are lots of things that you can't make money doing. And if > it comes down to turning our country into a police state and giving up > control of our computers so DRM can work so that a company can stop > people making copies of their software I'm against anyone being able to > make money that way.
Copy-protection is another thing entirely. -- Copy protection should automatically revoke copyright. Stewart Stremler -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
