Author: Albert Silver
Date: 18:38:14 12/09/05
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On December 09, 2005 at 21:06:55, Uri Blass wrote:
>On December 09, 2005 at 20:51:39, Albert Silver wrote:
>
>>On December 09, 2005 at 20:26:19, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>On December 09, 2005 at 19:59:28, Ed Murak wrote:
>>>
>>>>On December 09, 2005 at 19:31:30, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Not giving it to people is clearly against the wish of a lot of people who are
>>>>>interested in getting it.
>>>>
>>>>If that thinking was adopted as a general philosophy (which I know you have not
>>>>said), have you considered what sort of world it would swiftly produce?
>>>>
>>>>Is that the sort of world you want?
>>>
>>>I do not know but it is possible that a world without author rights may be
>>>better world for most people.
>>>
>>>The only negative side to most public may be that there are going to be less
>>>programs and less books but on the other side the public is going to need to pay
>>>less money for products.
>>
>>The negative sides would be a bit more than that. With no author rights, not
>>only would you make it impossible for authors to make a living, but you would
>>also be effectively saying that there is no right to protect ones ideas, which
>>is what the whole patent process is about also. On top of that, the public
>>wouldn't be paying less, they would be paying more. Much more.
>>
>> Albert
>>
>
>I am not sure about it.
>
>Even With no author rights author may still make a leaving.
>authors may sell programs to a single customer.
>authors may sell a program because buying the program mean getting technical
>support and getting it from a friend does not mean getting technical support.
>
>I am not sure if patents is a good idea and people may be afraid to develop
>something that is based on original idea of themselves because it is possible
>that someone else thought about the same idea and already has a patent about it.
>
>>
>>Less books, less programs, less progress,
>
>I am not sure about it.
>It may be also more free source programs and more progress.
>
>Uri
Can you point to one single communist country where there was more progress?
Human psychology says it isn't going to happen. If you the author of a program
has the choice of going to one of the following countries to sell your program,
which would it be?
a) Shangri-La - here authors have their rights, enforcement is excellent, and
they make what they can from their work.
b) Atlantis - here authors have no rights, so that any potential creator must
accept that people will only buy it if they must (for the most part) since they
can get it for free. Dedicating yourself to open source programming is not
possible, since there is practically no possibility to work as a professional
programmer at all. After all, a software company would be no different from an
individual. If the individual has no rights over his program, then neither does
the company. Thus the software industry would pretty much cease to exist. The
only professional programming of any kind would be government sponsored. As a
chess engine author, you can only hope to get money from technical support by
deliberately adding bugs to the program or not fixing know ones. As a book
author, the opportunities to make money from technical support is even more
limited, unless you deliberately remove key chapters...
Albert
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