SJS wrote:
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.
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Copy protection should automatically revoke copyright.
Stewart Stremler
That sounds familiar somehow.
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Ralph
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I think that copy protection should invalidate copyright. Just as you
can't both copyright and patent a work, we should extend the principle:
copyright, patent, trade secret, or copy protection
Pick one, and only one.
--Stewart Stremler
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