Gaywallet (they/it)@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.org · 11 months agoPluralistic: “If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing”pluralistic.netexternal-linkmessage-square206fedilinkarrow-up1352arrow-down10cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected]
arrow-up1352arrow-down1external-linkPluralistic: “If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing”pluralistic.netGaywallet (they/it)@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.org · 11 months agomessage-square206fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected]
minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 months ago They showed you how people couldn’t make these things without people paying for them. but that’s not true. people make things all the time without being paid.
minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 months ago“snake game” returns over one hundred twenty thousand results on github.
minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 months agoyou’re moving the goalposts.
minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 months agoyou never mentioned ‘quality’ until you wanted to disqualify data that didn’t support your position.
minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agogithub shows a hundred thousand repositories for the query “hangman”. assuming 10% of them are false positives it’s still a great number.
minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agothere are over one hundred fifty thousand results on github for “tictactoe”. just how many paid games do you think there are, by the way?
minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agothis doesn’t prove anyone ever needs to be paid to make something. a single counter example disproves the claim.
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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.
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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?
this doesn’t prove anyone ever needs to be paid to make something. a single counter example disproves the claim.