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Tetris Creator Claims FOSS Destroys the Market
alx5000 writes "In an interview conducted last week with Consumer Eroski (link in Spanish; Google translation), the father of Tetris Alexey Pajitnov claimed that 'Free Software should have never existed,' since it 'destroys the market' by bringing down companies that create wealth and prosperity. When asked about Red Hat or Oracle's support-oriented model, he called them 'a minority,' and also criticized Stallman's ideas as 'belonging to the past' where there were no software 'business possibilities.'"
So are we taking economic advice on open source/free software from someone who worked for Microsoft? Which as a company stands to lose the most from a diversified software market. Or are we taking business advice from someone who failed to make any money off one of the most popular games in history?
You're an idiot. If software houses relied on reducing costs as a means to profit there would not be a single software house left. Reducing your costs only allows you to do exactly that, *not make a profit*. It's like asking a supermarket to close down stores to "make a profit". Sure the running costs would be less, but then you sell less as well. Apart from your argument about software being developed in-house, the rest of it is complete nonsense.
FOSS copies ideas. It does not generate them.
If the alphabet weren't an Open Source development, we would all have to pay every time we read or wrote anything. In short most of what has been written would not have been. How many centuries behind in development would we now be?
The fact that this joke, despite never being funny to begin with and being repeated to death by nerds everywhere ad nauseum, is still being modded up (to 5 for christsake) has convinced me to never try to actually instill any kind of sense into any of the people who post comments here ever again. So as long as the humor here is always going to be mindlessly repeated garbage, I'm going to go back to post spamming goatse, poop, and butts, which I find to be much more consistently fulfilling, and frankly, hilarious.
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These are important life-sustaining materials and should have rigorous quality standards and commercial guarantees in order for consumers to know what they are buying. Neither of these things should have ever been free as it harms the market for these items and ultimately, the global economy!
Down with Free Air and Free Water!!