You see, the FSF knows better. It can judge what strategy is best for a company in the blink of an eye. This is evident by the tremendous success it has been over the years: billions in revenue, multiple spin-offs, their funding for startups, the fact that GNU/Hurd made Windows obsolete in 1995, that Microsoft and Apple are bankrupt and their former employees now work at the FSF. Why won't you trust these guys?
Do you think that engineers and managers at Google are idiots? If releasing the code under an open-source license were such a good idea, they would already be doing it, without your pushing and bullying.
My point was, that not feeding someone is murder only if one has legal obligation to do so, as it may be in case of one's children. What's the point of your appeal to emotions?
You are right. There are following limits to population:
-starvation
-disease
-war
-cultural
That's it. When the cultural limit to population growth does not work it is unavoidable that the other three will. If you eliminate diseases and war, obviously starvation will be left. So people in Africa will always die from mass starvation. There is nothing you can do about it other than making these people voluntarily limit their breeding. No amount of food will help.
Wrong. In Germany, I would have to pay additional fee if i wanted to tether my iPhone (at least with T-Mobile). Anyways, I bet, if you read the contract you signed you'll find out they are selling you exactly the service that you are then allowed to use.
"Right" is whatever you choose. The market allows us to coexist peacefully, otherwise we would have constant conflicts over the choice of the national toothpaste, operating system, etc.
Here's a little of the real Adam Smith for you :
"As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce."
Your point being? Isn't rent compatible with capitalism?
Yes, basically in Stallman-world we all get to work for big corporations (paid to write software). It is no coincidence that it is big companies that pay lip service to the FOSS ideology. So much for the little guy and software startups.
There's an open market, so I should be able to find someone who'll do it for a price that reflects the difficulty of the job.
Prices reflect the supply/demand for a good, in particular the scarcity of the skills of a software developer. They have little to do with difficulty (how do you measure it anyway?) Sorry, but once you write something like this there is no way one can take your whole argument seriously.
Amazon is just a company, one among many, so this "right to read" does not apply to it. It only applies to governments. What's so hard to understand about this?
Slashdot Mirror
I'm pretty sure you have a habit or two that somebody somewhere won't like.
The goal is not to be perfect, but be better than average and hence pay less than before. If you are perfect, you pay much less, but that's ok.
You see, the FSF knows better. It can judge what strategy is best for a company in the blink of an eye. This is evident by the tremendous success it has been over the years: billions in revenue, multiple spin-offs, their funding for startups, the fact that GNU/Hurd made Windows obsolete in 1995, that Microsoft and Apple are bankrupt and their former employees now work at the FSF. Why won't you trust these guys?
Do you think that engineers and managers at Google are idiots? If releasing the code under an open-source license were such a good idea, they would already be doing it, without your pushing and bullying.
It's a scary world you live in. Here's a solution: don't use email.
Will airplanes also be powered by batteries? This guy says, no: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2010/08/laughlin_on_the.html
BTW, methodology is the study of methods.
Then huge lack of demand aka selling means prices drop.
This would be a great time to buy.
This is a trade-off: economic efficiency vs. what you call fairness.
Is it a pleasure to be able to tell other people how long they are allowed or not allowed to work?
The US already has the most progressive income tax of the developed countries: http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2011/03/what-nation-has-most-progressive-tax.html
Mass starvation IS population control.
My point was, that not feeding someone is murder only if one has legal obligation to do so, as it may be in case of one's children. What's the point of your appeal to emotions?
You are right. There are following limits to population:
-starvation
-disease
-war
-cultural
That's it. When the cultural limit to population growth does not work it is unavoidable that the other three will. If you eliminate diseases and war, obviously starvation will be left. So people in Africa will always die from mass starvation. There is nothing you can do about it other than making these people voluntarily limit their breeding. No amount of food will help.
This isn't murder. Those people are adults and should be capable of caring for themselves.
Being highly competitive is discriminatory and racist. American education excels at what it is designed for: making people feel good about themselves.
who create
You used a non-word: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html
Don't sign the f*cking contract! How hard is that?
Wrong. In Germany, I would have to pay additional fee if i wanted to tether my iPhone (at least with T-Mobile). Anyways, I bet, if you read the contract you signed you'll find out they are selling you exactly the service that you are then allowed to use.
This is Slashdot. The only virtue here is being a loser.
"Right" is whatever you choose. The market allows us to coexist peacefully, otherwise we would have constant conflicts over the choice of the national toothpaste, operating system, etc.
since I believe Zuckerberg made all his money from the IPO
Not that it undermines your argument, but there was no Facebook IPO yet.
Here's a little of the real Adam Smith for you : "As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce."
Your point being? Isn't rent compatible with capitalism?
Yes, basically in Stallman-world we all get to work for big corporations (paid to write software). It is no coincidence that it is big companies that pay lip service to the FOSS ideology. So much for the little guy and software startups.
citizens can program
I doubt, one can become a good software developer with IQ less than 115, so at least 80% of population will never be software developers.
There's an open market, so I should be able to find someone who'll do it for a price that reflects the difficulty of the job.
Prices reflect the supply/demand for a good, in particular the scarcity of the skills of a software developer. They have little to do with difficulty (how do you measure it anyway?) Sorry, but once you write something like this there is no way one can take your whole argument seriously.
Amazon is just a company, one among many, so this "right to read" does not apply to it. It only applies to governments. What's so hard to understand about this?