The moral thing to do is to pay your share of that if you make a copy, even if the copy itself doesn’t cost anything.
i don’t need to disagree to disbelieve. i do disagree, but without establishing your justification for this claim, it’s kind of hard to argue against it.
The justification was that creating things has a cost, even if a copy doesn’t, and that we should distribute that cost as fairly as possible among the people benefiting from the creation.
I pay taxes, those were used to pay the people who build the bridge. And yes, taxes should be fair. If it’s a private bridge then the owners have every right to demand a fee for crossing it.
there’s no reason to believe what you claimed. a claim made without justification can be dismissed without justification.
What unjustified claim did I make that you disagree with? Seems all rather uncontroversial to me.
i don’t need to disagree to disbelieve. i do disagree, but without establishing your justification for this claim, it’s kind of hard to argue against it.
The justification was that creating things has a cost, even if a copy doesn’t, and that we should distribute that cost as fairly as possible among the people benefiting from the creation.
that’s doesn’t follow
Idk what to tell you but: Yes it does. We can’t really argue if you refuse to elaborate your point.
when you drive over a bridge, do you tip the engineering form? the contractors? they’re the ones who created this experience for you.
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so use isn’t tied to paying. one has nothing to do with the other.
I pay taxes, those were used to pay the people who build the bridge. And yes, taxes should be fair. If it’s a private bridge then the owners have every right to demand a fee for crossing it.
not the owners: the designers. what if I copy the bridge and put it in my front yard: do you think I owe royalties to the engineering firm?
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but that’s not true. people make things all the time without being paid.
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“snake game” returns over one hundred twenty thousand results on github.
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you’re moving the goalposts.
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you never mentioned ‘quality’ until you wanted to disqualify data that didn’t support your position.
this doesn’t prove anyone ever needs to be paid to make something. a single counter example disproves the claim.
github shows a hundred thousand repositories for the query “hangman”. assuming 10% of them are false positives it’s still a great number.
there are over one hundred fifty thousand results on github for “tictactoe”.
just how many paid games do you think there are, by the way?