Дана Thursday 10 November 2005 18:08, Jonathan S. Shapiro је написао(ла): > On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 16:33 +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > There are alternative models that may solve this > > question adequately, from micropayment to national funds. It is a > > challenge to make those alternative models of compensation work. But > > it is not a principle impossibility. In fact, in Germany, we have the > > "Verwertungsgesellschaft GEMA" which is a national fund which > > compensates authors of musical works for public performances of them. > > So, we know for a fact that such things can work. > > Micropayment doesn't help, because the cost isn't the issue. > > Let's take a closer look at the Verwertungsgesellschaft GEMA idea. Here > is what you appear to be endorsing: > > We will form a large organization. This organization will extort money > from every member of the population for a purpose that most members do > not care about and cannot gain any benefit from. However, it is > unsettling to call this act extortion, so we will instead refer to it as > "tax collection." Because the population will not wish to pay, we will > give this organization the power to legislate and to imprison, and we > will encourage it to execute this power with only such restraint as is > dictated, reluctantly, by the occasional public outcry. But we will call > it "government", so it is okay.
But if the "government" uses that open-source, it would not be unfair to collect taxes from the population. The benefit for the people would be about 150-200 euro off the price of their computers (no ms win, no ms office, no corel, photoshop, ...). And the country-wide taxes for such purpose would not have to be high. For example: 10M people in Germany times 1 euro divided by 10k programmers equals 1k euro for programmers per month. I guess that people could afford even 10 euro in taxes and wouldn't even notice that and I estimate that there are no more than 10k active open-source programmers in Germany. Or, am I wrong? -- Filip Brcic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWWeb: http://purl.org/NET/brcha/home/ Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 40994923 Yahoo! brcha MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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