Plenty of people during the last 1000 years have worked without being paid - slaves...
History tells me that these slaves were given some basic necessity(food, shelter). It wasn't good conditions but a starving slave isn't useful so they were fed. Effort -> compensation. In this case, the compensation is food.
what if the world hates your work and no one buys it, nor pirates it? Still feel 'entitled' to compensation?
In the app world, you exchange payment for a copy of the app. Therefore the relation isn't "I develop an app->I get paid", it's "I sell a copy->I get paid", therefore I only expect compensation if I someone use a copy of my app, legel or not, so yes, I feel intitled to compensation if someone gets a copy of my app.
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It's a fair enough supposition for most users. Besides, needing sudo in linux is kinda similar.
I work->I get paid.
Plenty of people during the last 1000 years have worked without being paid - slaves...
History tells me that these slaves were given some basic necessity(food, shelter). It wasn't good conditions but a starving slave isn't useful so they were fed. Effort -> compensation. In this case, the compensation is food.
what if the world hates your work and no one buys it, nor pirates it? Still feel 'entitled' to compensation?
In the app world, you exchange payment for a copy of the app. Therefore the relation isn't "I develop an app->I get paid", it's "I sell a copy->I get paid", therefore I only expect compensation if I someone use a copy of my app, legel or not, so yes, I feel intitled to compensation if someone gets a copy of my app.
If this mean less emoticons then I'm all for it.