Le mercredi 06 septembre 2006 à 08:47 -0400, Timothy Miller a écrit : > On 9/6/06, Raphael Jacquot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > imho, sandisk should come out with the exact same player with ogg vorbis > > support instead of mp3 ;D > > That goes against the grain of old-school business thinking. "Free" > is scary for many reasons. One of the biggest is that there's no one > to blame if something goes wrong. Another is that when you license by > paying money, you have some reasonable amount of assurance that your > legal ducks are in a row. There's no patent holder for Vorbis, so > there's no one to pay license fees to, so whoever owns the patents on > it (and they assume someone does) will catch you at it later and sue > you for billions. > > There's an interesting ethic there. You can't make money unless > you've spent some. Makes sense. A point of philosophy. Considering the economy as a system then it's just about cost, spending money. What one calls a "gain" or "making money" lies in a far wider system, let's name it the "human affairs", which is just about social rules, mainly the property. At this level only stands the ethic.
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