On Vi, 20 iul 12, 04:29:05, Gary Dale wrote: > On 20/07/12 03:30 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >On Jo, 19 iul 12, 22:50:25, Celejar wrote: > >>Quite true - and completely irrelevant to my point. I don't deny that > >>money can be made with FLOSS, just that it's pointless to try to sell > >>copies of one's software if it's freely copyable. The examples you give > >>are all of models other than the straightforward sale of licenses or > >>copies. > >IMO a business model that relies on the possibility to sell copies that > >basically cost nothing to produce is broken. > > > Actually, probably not. Take the music and film industries (please). > Stamping a disc costs almost nothing yet they sell them for > outrageous amounts. Like software, the real work is in the source, > not the medium. You can listen to the music for nothing on the radio > or television or even record it yourself. Still neither the film nor > music industries are suffering from lack of sales.
I didn't mean it doesn't work now (and it will still work for some time), but my hope is that eventually people (buyers) will realise the absurdity of it and move to a different model. AFAICT it has already started, but it will take a (long) while. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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