On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:46:43 +0000, Roy Schestowitz
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>Fallacy. Making free downloads and separating them from paid copies (phyical
>books) works better for O'Reilly. Also see what Lessig said on the Colbert
>show 2 weeks ago.
Why would anyone pay for a book if they can get the same book for
free?
Are all of O'Reilly's books free?
I don't see them free on their site.
http://oreilly.com/store/
>See Red Hat for details. They make good money and enrich this market for
>everyone.
I look at it the other way. The community enriches Redhat via
Fedora. The community does all the work, Redhat packages it,
sells support contracts and makes plenty of money.
>Many business (most businesses?) want these patents eliminated. But small
>businesses don't write laws.
I think the system needs an overhaul however I believe in
protecting the work of others and respecting that protection.
What is the incentive to create say the next great media player
if others can sit back, watch, wait and copy it the week it gets
released.
I'll bet China can't wait for the patent system to break down.
>You are wrong. There are probably more jobs i services around software than in
>writing it, particularly when monopolies prevail.
Then it shouldn't be too difficult to find a job where Linux is
the system of choice rather than Windows.
>RMS wrote GNU on an MIT-bred O/S. A pirate may stand inside the ship he's
>trying to sink.
Maybe, but when I see my priest drinking away in the gin mill on
Saturday night and then preaching to me on Sunday morning about
the evils of alcohol and why it's a sin, his message looses some
credibility even though one could say he speaks from direct
experience.
George Barca
georgebarca1981@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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