2011/10/18 Guru गुरु <[email protected]> > ** > > On 18/10/11 11:29, Narendra Sisodiya wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Vivek Khurana > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> Secondly, the NC clause is important in a country like ours where >> cheap run of the mill institutes mushroom everyday. How do you plan to >> protect exploitation in case someone downloads the the content from >> net, burns a DVD and starts selling it at price of his choice. In this >> scenario, he is building his business on content created out of public >> money.I think the current license has clause to prevent this. >> > > This is precisely I want to happen. Your arguments are not True. because My > first question in the list that , -- "Give an example that somebody have > earned huge profit by selling CC-By-SA or non-NC contents", > Your argument is valid that --- "*How do you plan to protect exploitation > in case someone downloads the the content from net, burns a DVD and starts > selling it at price of his choice*" > > There is no need to protect. because EVERYBODY is allowed to do so. If > Vivek burn and start selling videos than Narendra and many other will also > start doing so and eventually price will become lower and best quality will > win. > > > This is good in theory, but not in reality. How is it that Microsoft gets a > huge premium for its Office suite when comparable office suite is available > free (to share and free of cost). While the case is black and white in case > of office, where we have a proprietary software as the leader, what about > Android - where another large company is able to dominate the android > development system. So is android 'free'? even if the code is available for > all purposes, what about the role of google in shaping its course? > > Big corporations can use variety of methods to dominate the market and > drown out the efforts of others. Such large monopolies/oligopolies is far > more common in the IT sector than in any other. And their domination > distorts the market so much that it is meaningless to believe that since > anyone/everyone can enter the market, monopolies cant happen. > > You have totally derailed the topic !! You are talking about monopoly system and exploitation with proprietary Goods/Products. We were discussing something else !!
> There is a need to prevent such practices and hence the NC clause has > meaning/value. It may be difficult to implement, but then that is true of > most policies/rules. while software can operate on binaries, policies need > to be able to cater to different kinds of contexts and needs. > > While Ii agree that adding the NC clause makes it 'less free' than not > having it, I think it is simplistic to argue that a NC clause completely > makes it non-free and NC is always not desirable >
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