I guess it never occurred to you that something could be both powerful and usable. Just because someone makes a better desktop doesn't mean your precious CLI would ever disappear. Why would one magically invalidate the other's existence? The CLI would still exist, you could run the desktop if you wanted or don't bother. Or run something that fit your needs.
You're whining over nothing--just an elitist mindset.
Not that I disagree with you about how people are just remaking Windows on top of Linux--it amazes me people are actually ripping off start menus, taskbars, and integrated file/net browsers. All the poor elements of Windows, meanwhile as they criticize it. Sorry, I don't like that it takes seconds to load a Home folder.
Go to MSDN and read up. For instance, making a Windows device driver is common knowledge you can easily look up anywhere.
I don't see what Windows not shipping with programming documentation has to do with anything. That would be a waste of space since 80% of users would never bother with it anyway.
Basically, your argument is "if you don't like it, code it yourself," which has been debunked endlessly in the past. In fact, it reinforces the point that Linux and its related projects are designed by programmers, for programmers, which is something that sadly doesn't look like it will change any time in the coming years.
If you don't want users bitching about the garbage usability of your piss-poor app, keep your stuff on your private network and never release it, and then don't whine when your precious OSS isn't widely adopted by users. I'm sick of this whiny "you should be grateful for the privilege of using my app in the first place!" mentality. Why should I care if you volunteered your weekends to make it? You put it out online, so I can only assume you want it to be used. If you don't want it criticized, keep it to yourself.
The "you can't criticize because it's volunteer work" is never going to fly if you truly want a "Year of Desktop Linux."
People don't want to "see under the hood" or "download the GTK+ development library."
They just want it to work, hence the use of Internet Explorer. Many OSS advocates simply don't get it. The obsession with "choice" and "freedom" has produced difficult-to-use software that gets reinvented by about 20 other competing clones, all doing things differently. Somehow this is supposed to be good.
If you're using a GUI to build command line instructions, first off you may as well just use a GUI period, and second, clearly your CLI is too complex. You know, most people don't want "CLI skills." Slashdotters love to claim how much better it is, but it's not really better, you're simply used to it. Others may disagree. Anyone who believes they know the "one right way" of doing anything is someone to avoid.
A GUI program to build CLI commands, talk about overkill--yet I fully expect that someone has tried this on some inane Sourceforge project page...sigh...
What happens when the other 99% of their software doesn't work anymore? Or half of their hardware?
Being sneaky about installing Linux under people's noses seems like a very sleazy way to spread adoption. I'm sorry, but Linux is not ready enough for that kind of bait-and-switch, and it's a tad bit disconcerting anyway to be that sleazy.
You spread through education and willing adoption, not sneaky forced adoption.
Wow. Your friends who know you ask you about Linux and "geek types" because they "heard about it somewhere." That proves everything.
I repeat: people outside of Slashdot--that is, the REAL WORLD in which people are more concerned with their car payments than their preferred "desktop environment"--do NOT, NOT NOT know or care about "M$," "RIAA", or "Linux." Deal with it. I do tech support and interact with people and their computers for a living, and 80% of the people don't even know what version of Windows they're using, despite the huge boot splash screen saying "XP" on it.
1.) Don't do a goddamn thing to my fonts. My fonts are much nicer looking than Windows fonts ever were TYVM.
Yeah, check out those diagonal lines in characters that suddenly fatten up, or even disappear. I see them in capital Ws, digits, and other characters all the time in screenshots people show me to "prove" that somehow, Linux font rendering is magically supposed to be better than Windows. Sorry, but I have yet to see a 10pt Times New Roman in Linux look better than a 10pt Times New Roman in Windows.
Of course, OS X blows away everyone's font rendering anyway--if you want to be proud of anything, strive for theirs.
So now we have to learn 10 different "distros." What's the damn difference?
On an unrelated note, "Joe Sixpack" is an annoyingly overused term around here. Not to mention, it's sort of inherently condescending. Just because we're geeks who spend hours trying to get our soundcards working doesn't make us better than someone who uses their computer only to chat with their jock friends.
You guys need to be checking Anti-Slash every day, because you keep modding up reposts. The commentary for the grandparent post says "those morons always upmod this stuff." I see a lot of troll accounts getting +5s lately.
I keep getting told that somehow the rendering in Linux is actually supposed to be better than that of Windows. Nothing illustrates better the fanatical fanboyism some people display, because when I run the latest freetype, complete with bytecode interpreter and everything, and standard Windows fonts, I still get bizarre line widths, particularly in Ws, 2s, and other diagonals and curves. It's the ugliest thing I've ever seen, and apparently people completely ignore it, or they're just not paying enough attention to see it. I don't know.
Could we get a few examples of Linux just playing catch-up and not being "Innovative"?
Taskbar
Start menu (I'm sorry, "big giant K" menu)
Integration of the file browser and internet browser, shamelessly stolen from Windows 98--you know, the OS everyone still bitches about around here six years later
Minimize, Maximize, and Close buttons, often in the same exact places
Mono project
Text shadows under icon labels (poorly done, I might add)
A trashcan, which not only rips off Windows but also Mac. Before you bother (and I know someone will), note that it doesn't matter if Windows also ripped it off--you asked what Linux was ripping off and not innovating.
Christ, man...I could go on and on but I'm at work right now.
The entire Linux desktop movement blindly follows the Windows paradigm for desktops like a happy little dog. Why not DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT?! Get that taskbar the hell out of there--they don't facilate spacial navigation and are horrible. Get that Start menu-ripoff out of there--Start menus are extremely poor program launchers. That integrated browser doesn't belong--it has absolutely no reason for existing and adds seconds to my loading of the Home folder (and you guys call Windows XP slow).
The only "innovation" KDE and GNOME can profess is having tons more pointless applets running on their panels, and running a lot slower than Windows on the same hardware. That's absolutely it and nothing more. Other than that, they offer nothing more than what Windows offers, and they don't even have a chance of eating OS X's dust.
You asked, I answered. Linux needs something completely new with its OWN IDENTITY--something that sits alongside Windows and OS X in having its own identity. KDE and GNOME are awful, horrible, and very, very bad. Personally, I'm looking forward to Y-Windows, which plans to replace the failed experiment that is X with something modern and better, while retaining the advantages that X had like network-transparency. No more endless "extensions" that conflict with each other! No more non-integrated desktops, where you're having to install TWO desktop environments just to be able to run each other's apps.
The Linux desktop is the perfect example of fragmentation run amok, holding back progress and adoption. Hell, very basic things still don't exist. The day you finally implement a binary installation/uninstallation routine so that someone can stick in a CD and run an autoplay installer that properly creates its shortcut icons and so on will be the day more apps will start coming out for Linux. Not to mention using just ONE library instead of multiple "toolkits" doing the widget work that should be done by the desktop anyway. Man, like I said, I could go on and on for pages...
...people outside of Slashdot do not know or care about "phoning home" or "firewall holes." The real world just doesn't get all worked up over it like Slashdot does.
Similarly, the increasing cost of XP/Office XP with little or no percieved increase in value *cough*software assurance*cough* has got to be grating the nerves of even a few PHB's.
MS Windows flashes on the media's screen with a new release and fades away.
Hmm...Windows has been installed on over 90% of PCs for over a decade now. Flash on the media's screen and fade away? Come on...let's be truthful here.
What progress was made this year? A new version of KDE that added some sidebar buttons and a password storer--oh, and some extremely badly done text shadows for icon labels.
Then we have Gnome--a new file selector dialog and, again, a password storer.
Meanwhile, it's still the same old thing--emulating a desktop on top of old X technology, instead of being a real desktop (binary installation/uninstallation APIs, anyone? No more taskbar/start menu/integrated net and file browser ripped off from Windows 98, anyone? No conflicting, inconsistent toolkits, anyone? I could go on).
It's all about software. People are NOT, NOT, NOT going to abandon all their software. They like their software, and--yes, Slashdotters, despite what you hear from the editors here all the time--many people like Windows. It is safe and easy for them.
If you mention to them "apt-get" they will run screaming in terror.
...please no more of these, Slashdot! It seems you post two a month now. They're always the same, everyone makes fun of them, and they don't offer anything new or insightful other than "things are looking good."
Microsoft's innovation for the taskbar was to invent it and make it successful. Ever seen Windows 1.0? Do you think desktop Linux has a taskbar because it was just a good idea they pulled out of the air? No, it's because of Windows 95 that Linux desktops have big "K" menus and "taskbar panels." And it's because of 98 that they integrated the net/filesystem browsers. And it's because of XP that they added shadows to the icon text on the desktop...come on, I could go on and on and on.
I notice you ignore the other features Linux completely ripped off from Windows, like integrated net/filesystem browser, etc.
I like how the fact that your post got modded up means suddenly mine started getting modded down, as though yours invalidated mine.
I'm happy to hear Fedora loaded up your printer correctly. There are thousands upon thousands of devices it won't load up. It's not some sort of secret that Linux's hardware support isn't as wide as Windows at this point in time.
Why? And how do you define "art"? I bet a car designer considers his car to be art. Or a successful leather jacket designer.
There is no way to get the music of signed artists except through the companies they have signed for.
Blame the artist. They signed the deal.
You can go to another band of that genre, or write your own music, or turn to public domain music or whatever. It's silly to act like there's a "monopoly" on the music you can listen to. Everywhere I turn is music--often music I don't like.:) But music is everywhere.
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I guess I may be dumb (probably not even up for discussion) but I have never really understood the need for the RIAA in the first place. Artist records music... record company produces CD... product is distributed... consumer purchases music. Why do we need a big monolithic organization involved that messes up everything for everybody?
The RIAA is just a lobbying group for a collection of major record labels. As for why an artist would need a record label to succeed--go out and try to be as successful as, say, Metallica without a record label promoting and advertising you and making you available.
Contrary to Slashdot's niche opinions, the Internet hasn't made it easy to promote yourself as an artist. People don't like net ads, remember? People like tangibles like posters and singles and so forth.
Good riddance. And you wouldn't be called a "professional musician" in that case, you'd be called a "recording artist" who depends on artificial-scarcity enforcement to make money as your first priority.
No, he'd just be a disappointed artist who has realized that morons like you have gotten so used to the convenience of piracy, they expect everything to either be free, or less than a dollar, and so he'll never make a living fulfilling his dream. Doing club shows all year doesn't get you by, sorry. I guess you didn't know being a "professional musician" means music is your profession, which means you get paid for it.
Very quickly, it's getting harder and harder to make money on anything in this world. I've seen whole medical textbooks ripped and put online before. Audiobooks, entire discographies, etc. The things you'll find being thrown around on P2P networks are incredible. Nobody cares about the consequences anymore. What happens when nobody can sell anything anymore? Why do people ignore the inevitable result of this?
A real musician would be playing for the love of it and building human relationships with actual fans who would have no problem paying for fresh and scarce concerts, scarce physical merchandise, and CDs-as-a-patronage-thankyou.
GIVE ME A BREAK. No, better, FUCK YOU. A "real musician" has to eat, because they make their living making music. That's their choice in this life. A "real musician" has the right to be successful from their music. You, sir, are not a musician. You're just another Slashdotter going with the groupthink--another consumer who comes on and replies to anti-RIAA propoganda put forth by OSDN-owned Slashdot. You have no right lecturing people on what a musician should be caring about. I'm a musician myself, and your attitude pisses me off. If Slashdot were made up of musicians, the entire opinion of this website would change. Your opinion is just a result of the justification going on in your head over how piracy has made people expect things for free or for extremely cheap.
By your logic:
* John Carmack is not a "real programmer" because he should only care about hacking out cool engines and building relationships with content creators and game players, blah blah blah, and be happy when people bother taking the time out of their day to bother paying him, out of the goodness of their little golden hearts.
* Peter Jackson is not a "real filmmaker" because he should only care about making epic trilogies to build "human relationships" with the Tolkien fans who take the time out of their day to bother paying him for the things he made, out of the goodness of their little golden hearts.
* Nobody should be upset over anyone not being willing to pay enough to cover expenses. Instead, everyone should be on their hands and knees, grateful and kissing the asses of those who dare--*gasp*--pay fully for shit instead of demanding it be.50 or free. You know, to "show the RIAA who's boss." Because that makes it all right...
And if you could make an exact molecular copy of a can of Coke for next to nothing (and you soon will), would you feel bad that CocaCola (and WalMart, and the rest) are now being "ripped off"? CocaCola would have to reinvent themselves by having to work again...
"work again?" They're not working now? I could have sworn they made soda that a large majority of the world drinks and enjoys. Yes, my friend, accept global capitalism and deal with it.
by continually coming up with new recipes. Of course, they'd never be a giant sugar-water-advertising-&-distribution company again (just like the RIAA is going to have to downsize).
Your attitude has to be the most pompous and misinformed I've read in a long time. "You're not a real musician if you expect to be compensated for your career choice!" Fuck off, and whatever job you do, I hope you get paid for it so you can make a living. You should
...is just someone wanting to take advantage of the millions of people who trade files all day and night on Kazaa.
I've gotten one before myself, for a keygen ("Simcity 4 keygen.exe", yes I own the product but didn't feel like fishing out the case that night to enter the code, so I downloaded a quick keygen).
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I guess it never occurred to you that something could be both powerful and usable. Just because someone makes a better desktop doesn't mean your precious CLI would ever disappear. Why would one magically invalidate the other's existence? The CLI would still exist, you could run the desktop if you wanted or don't bother. Or run something that fit your needs.
You're whining over nothing--just an elitist mindset.
Not that I disagree with you about how people are just remaking Windows on top of Linux--it amazes me people are actually ripping off start menus, taskbars, and integrated file/net browsers. All the poor elements of Windows, meanwhile as they criticize it. Sorry, I don't like that it takes seconds to load a Home folder.
Go to MSDN and read up. For instance, making a Windows device driver is common knowledge you can easily look up anywhere.
I don't see what Windows not shipping with programming documentation has to do with anything. That would be a waste of space since 80% of users would never bother with it anyway.
Basically, your argument is "if you don't like it, code it yourself," which has been debunked endlessly in the past. In fact, it reinforces the point that Linux and its related projects are designed by programmers, for programmers, which is something that sadly doesn't look like it will change any time in the coming years.
If you don't want users bitching about the garbage usability of your piss-poor app, keep your stuff on your private network and never release it, and then don't whine when your precious OSS isn't widely adopted by users. I'm sick of this whiny "you should be grateful for the privilege of using my app in the first place!" mentality. Why should I care if you volunteered your weekends to make it? You put it out online, so I can only assume you want it to be used. If you don't want it criticized, keep it to yourself.
The "you can't criticize because it's volunteer work" is never going to fly if you truly want a "Year of Desktop Linux."
People don't want to "see under the hood" or "download the GTK+ development library."
They just want it to work, hence the use of Internet Explorer. Many OSS advocates simply don't get it. The obsession with "choice" and "freedom" has produced difficult-to-use software that gets reinvented by about 20 other competing clones, all doing things differently. Somehow this is supposed to be good.
If you're using a GUI to build command line instructions, first off you may as well just use a GUI period, and second, clearly your CLI is too complex. You know, most people don't want "CLI skills." Slashdotters love to claim how much better it is, but it's not really better, you're simply used to it. Others may disagree. Anyone who believes they know the "one right way" of doing anything is someone to avoid.
A GUI program to build CLI commands, talk about overkill--yet I fully expect that someone has tried this on some inane Sourceforge project page...sigh...
What happens when the other 99% of their software doesn't work anymore? Or half of their hardware?
Being sneaky about installing Linux under people's noses seems like a very sleazy way to spread adoption. I'm sorry, but Linux is not ready enough for that kind of bait-and-switch, and it's a tad bit disconcerting anyway to be that sleazy.
You spread through education and willing adoption, not sneaky forced adoption.
Wow. Your friends who know you ask you about Linux and "geek types" because they "heard about it somewhere." That proves everything.
I repeat: people outside of Slashdot--that is, the REAL WORLD in which people are more concerned with their car payments than their preferred "desktop environment"--do NOT, NOT NOT know or care about "M$," "RIAA", or "Linux." Deal with it. I do tech support and interact with people and their computers for a living, and 80% of the people don't even know what version of Windows they're using, despite the huge boot splash screen saying "XP" on it.
1.) Don't do a goddamn thing to my fonts. My fonts are much nicer looking than Windows fonts ever were TYVM.
Yeah, check out those diagonal lines in characters that suddenly fatten up, or even disappear. I see them in capital Ws, digits, and other characters all the time in screenshots people show me to "prove" that somehow, Linux font rendering is magically supposed to be better than Windows. Sorry, but I have yet to see a 10pt Times New Roman in Linux look better than a 10pt Times New Roman in Windows.
Of course, OS X blows away everyone's font rendering anyway--if you want to be proud of anything, strive for theirs.
So now we have to learn 10 different "distros." What's the damn difference?
On an unrelated note, "Joe Sixpack" is an annoyingly overused term around here. Not to mention, it's sort of inherently condescending. Just because we're geeks who spend hours trying to get our soundcards working doesn't make us better than someone who uses their computer only to chat with their jock friends.
You guys need to be checking Anti-Slash every day, because you keep modding up reposts. The commentary for the grandparent post says "those morons always upmod this stuff." I see a lot of troll accounts getting +5s lately.
I keep getting told that somehow the rendering in Linux is actually supposed to be better than that of Windows. Nothing illustrates better the fanatical fanboyism some people display, because when I run the latest freetype, complete with bytecode interpreter and everything, and standard Windows fonts, I still get bizarre line widths, particularly in Ws, 2s, and other diagonals and curves. It's the ugliest thing I've ever seen, and apparently people completely ignore it, or they're just not paying enough attention to see it. I don't know.
The entire Linux desktop movement blindly follows the Windows paradigm for desktops like a happy little dog. Why not DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT?! Get that taskbar the hell out of there--they don't facilate spacial navigation and are horrible. Get that Start menu-ripoff out of there--Start menus are extremely poor program launchers. That integrated browser doesn't belong--it has absolutely no reason for existing and adds seconds to my loading of the Home folder (and you guys call Windows XP slow).
The only "innovation" KDE and GNOME can profess is having tons more pointless applets running on their panels, and running a lot slower than Windows on the same hardware. That's absolutely it and nothing more. Other than that, they offer nothing more than what Windows offers, and they don't even have a chance of eating OS X's dust.
You asked, I answered. Linux needs something completely new with its OWN IDENTITY--something that sits alongside Windows and OS X in having its own identity. KDE and GNOME are awful, horrible, and very, very bad. Personally, I'm looking forward to Y-Windows, which plans to replace the failed experiment that is X with something modern and better, while retaining the advantages that X had like network-transparency. No more endless "extensions" that conflict with each other! No more non-integrated desktops, where you're having to install TWO desktop environments just to be able to run each other's apps.
The Linux desktop is the perfect example of fragmentation run amok, holding back progress and adoption. Hell, very basic things still don't exist. The day you finally implement a binary installation/uninstallation routine so that someone can stick in a CD and run an autoplay installer that properly creates its shortcut icons and so on will be the day more apps will start coming out for Linux. Not to mention using just ONE library instead of multiple "toolkits" doing the widget work that should be done by the desktop anyway. Man, like I said, I could go on and on for pages...
...people outside of Slashdot do not know or care about "phoning home" or "firewall holes." The real world just doesn't get all worked up over it like Slashdot does.
Similarly, the increasing cost of XP/Office XP with little or no percieved increase in value *cough*software assurance*cough* has got to be grating the nerves of even a few PHB's.
So don't buy the new version.
MS Windows flashes on the media's screen with a new release and fades away.
Hmm...Windows has been installed on over 90% of PCs for over a decade now. Flash on the media's screen and fade away? Come on...let's be truthful here.
What progress was made this year? A new version of KDE that added some sidebar buttons and a password storer--oh, and some extremely badly done text shadows for icon labels.
Then we have Gnome--a new file selector dialog and, again, a password storer.
Meanwhile, it's still the same old thing--emulating a desktop on top of old X technology, instead of being a real desktop (binary installation/uninstallation APIs, anyone? No more taskbar/start menu/integrated net and file browser ripped off from Windows 98, anyone? No conflicting, inconsistent toolkits, anyone? I could go on).
It's all about software. People are NOT, NOT, NOT going to abandon all their software. They like their software, and--yes, Slashdotters, despite what you hear from the editors here all the time--many people like Windows. It is safe and easy for them.
If you mention to them "apt-get" they will run screaming in terror.
...please no more of these, Slashdot! It seems you post two a month now. They're always the same, everyone makes fun of them, and they don't offer anything new or insightful other than "things are looking good."
Stop!
Riiight...there was a "Start menu" on the Mac...
Microsoft's innovation for the taskbar was to invent it and make it successful. Ever seen Windows 1.0? Do you think desktop Linux has a taskbar because it was just a good idea they pulled out of the air? No, it's because of Windows 95 that Linux desktops have big "K" menus and "taskbar panels." And it's because of 98 that they integrated the net/filesystem browsers. And it's because of XP that they added shadows to the icon text on the desktop...come on, I could go on and on and on.
I notice you ignore the other features Linux completely ripped off from Windows, like integrated net/filesystem browser, etc.
I like how the fact that your post got modded up means suddenly mine started getting modded down, as though yours invalidated mine.
I'm happy to hear Fedora loaded up your printer correctly. There are thousands upon thousands of devices it won't load up. It's not some sort of secret that Linux's hardware support isn't as wide as Windows at this point in time.
If popularity breeds vulnerability, Apache should have far more vulnerabilities than IIS. It doesn't.
According to the study Slashdot posted, THEY DO.
Guess you missed the breaches of Debian, Gentoo, Gnome, GNU, etc.
For using a niche language, Portage sure seems pretty popular.
you can't apply commodity logic to art.
:) But music is everywhere.
Why? And how do you define "art"? I bet a car designer considers his car to be art. Or a successful leather jacket designer.
There is no way to get the music of signed artists except through the companies they have signed for.
Blame the artist. They signed the deal.
You can go to another band of that genre, or write your own music, or turn to public domain music or whatever. It's silly to act like there's a "monopoly" on the music you can listen to. Everywhere I turn is music--often music I don't like.
I guess I may be dumb (probably not even up for discussion) but I have never really understood the need for the RIAA in the first place. Artist records music... record company produces CD... product is distributed... consumer purchases music. Why do we need a big monolithic organization involved that messes up everything for everybody?
The RIAA is just a lobbying group for a collection of major record labels. As for why an artist would need a record label to succeed--go out and try to be as successful as, say, Metallica without a record label promoting and advertising you and making you available.
Contrary to Slashdot's niche opinions, the Internet hasn't made it easy to promote yourself as an artist. People don't like net ads, remember? People like tangibles like posters and singles and so forth.
Good riddance. And you wouldn't be called a "professional musician" in that case, you'd be called a "recording artist" who depends on artificial-scarcity enforcement to make money as your first priority.
.50 or free. You know, to "show the RIAA who's boss." Because that makes it all right...
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No, he'd just be a disappointed artist who has realized that morons like you have gotten so used to the convenience of piracy, they expect everything to either be free, or less than a dollar, and so he'll never make a living fulfilling his dream. Doing club shows all year doesn't get you by, sorry. I guess you didn't know being a "professional musician" means music is your profession, which means you get paid for it.
Very quickly, it's getting harder and harder to make money on anything in this world. I've seen whole medical textbooks ripped and put online before. Audiobooks, entire discographies, etc. The things you'll find being thrown around on P2P networks are incredible. Nobody cares about the consequences anymore. What happens when nobody can sell anything anymore? Why do people ignore the inevitable result of this?
A real musician would be playing for the love of it and building human relationships with actual fans who would have no problem paying for fresh and scarce concerts, scarce physical merchandise, and CDs-as-a-patronage-thankyou.
GIVE ME A BREAK. No, better, FUCK YOU. A "real musician" has to eat, because they make their living making music. That's their choice in this life. A "real musician" has the right to be successful from their music. You, sir, are not a musician. You're just another Slashdotter going with the groupthink--another consumer who comes on and replies to anti-RIAA propoganda put forth by OSDN-owned Slashdot. You have no right lecturing people on what a musician should be caring about. I'm a musician myself, and your attitude pisses me off. If Slashdot were made up of musicians, the entire opinion of this website would change. Your opinion is just a result of the justification going on in your head over how piracy has made people expect things for free or for extremely cheap.
By your logic:
* John Carmack is not a "real programmer" because he should only care about hacking out cool engines and building relationships with content creators and game players, blah blah blah, and be happy when people bother taking the time out of their day to bother paying him, out of the goodness of their little golden hearts.
* Peter Jackson is not a "real filmmaker" because he should only care about making epic trilogies to build "human relationships" with the Tolkien fans who take the time out of their day to bother paying him for the things he made, out of the goodness of their little golden hearts.
* Nobody should be upset over anyone not being willing to pay enough to cover expenses. Instead, everyone should be on their hands and knees, grateful and kissing the asses of those who dare--*gasp*--pay fully for shit instead of demanding it be
And if you could make an exact molecular copy of a can of Coke for next to nothing (and you soon will), would you feel bad that CocaCola (and WalMart, and the rest) are now being "ripped off"? CocaCola would have to reinvent themselves by having to work again
"work again?" They're not working now? I could have sworn they made soda that a large majority of the world drinks and enjoys. Yes, my friend, accept global capitalism and deal with it.
by continually coming up with new recipes. Of course, they'd never be a giant sugar-water-advertising-&-distribution company again (just like the RIAA is going to have to downsize).
Your attitude has to be the most pompous and misinformed I've read in a long time. "You're not a real musician if you expect to be compensated for your career choice!" Fuck off, and whatever job you do, I hope you get paid for it so you can make a living. You should
...is just someone wanting to take advantage of the millions of people who trade files all day and night on Kazaa.
I've gotten one before myself, for a keygen ("Simcity 4 keygen.exe", yes I own the product but didn't feel like fishing out the case that night to enter the code, so I downloaded a quick keygen).