Dear PRS,
Please come and procecute my neighbour for playing his music too loud everynight. It can be heard all the way up and down my street and I'm afraid we are all recieving unlawful preformances of copyrighted music (no matter how tasteless it might be).
~Bleeding-Ears Joe
I'm sorry but you sound as though your trying to say the only cost involved with developing software is the shipping. Well let me say that unless you like buying blank CD's for $200 then you must be crazy. Think of all the R&D that goes into programming something like an OS, let alone the amount of man hours that goes into the software development cycle to produce functioning software (and before you get on my back about me trying to imply that MS OS are functioning I'm speaking generally here).
Just do some maths, Average salary for a programmer 40k * Maybe 10 for a decent size project, software takes y years to reach distribution that is 40*10*x hundred thousand dollars just in paying the programmers.
Lets face it high costs of programs keeps all us geeks and nerds in a job. I like open source software but it scares me at the thought of developers getting exploited for below average wages, because of the nature of "free" soft ware. Lets face it unless the guys are developing in their "free time" (and we all know time is priceless) then the software is not really free.
If things turn ugly in the future I see sweatshops without a Nike in sight, but instead rows of computers with poor buggers getting paid pittance to code.
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Dear PRS, Please come and procecute my neighbour for playing his music too loud everynight. It can be heard all the way up and down my street and I'm afraid we are all recieving unlawful preformances of copyrighted music (no matter how tasteless it might be). ~Bleeding-Ears Joe
I think the fact that the poster used 700 "miles" is an indication that the poster doesn't know much about Australian geography
I'm sorry but you sound as though your trying to say the only cost involved with developing software is the shipping. Well let me say that unless you like buying blank CD's for $200 then you must be crazy. Think of all the R&D that goes into programming something like an OS, let alone the amount of man hours that goes into the software development cycle to produce functioning software (and before you get on my back about me trying to imply that MS OS are functioning I'm speaking generally here). Just do some maths, Average salary for a programmer 40k * Maybe 10 for a decent size project, software takes y years to reach distribution that is 40*10*x hundred thousand dollars just in paying the programmers. Lets face it high costs of programs keeps all us geeks and nerds in a job. I like open source software but it scares me at the thought of developers getting exploited for below average wages, because of the nature of "free" soft ware. Lets face it unless the guys are developing in their "free time" (and we all know time is priceless) then the software is not really free. If things turn ugly in the future I see sweatshops without a Nike in sight, but instead rows of computers with poor buggers getting paid pittance to code.
"Hey! Aren't you Neil Armstrong? I just saw you on the moon." "uhhh... The tape delay and err solar winds..." Any way enough Family guy, In other news http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/23/1723208