>>The home-owners took 10 times as much care of their houses, even though they were very poor... If it's mine, I'm not going to mess it up!
Yeah, I've seen that. But it also makes you wonder about the landlords. They own it, and they don't take care of it. What's up with that?
Maybe this analogy even extends to software somehow. I'm not the one using it, that clown who "licensed" it is. Why should I care if it's buggy and freezes his system or corrupts his data? I just made it and sold it to him. I don't actually have to live with it.
Somewhere in here there's an idea about giving a rat's ass even if your own ass isn't on the line. Maybe that's a two-way street. Maybe we could all earn, buy, or license some good Karma here if we cared to...
>>all that money IBM and other companies are investing in linux , all that money they pay their developers they eventually get back by adding a linux/free software tax to their produts' prices.
Oh, well, what if not? Maybe Linux is productive for IBM and it's better for them if it thrives. Maybe, they sell more machines if they load Linux, and then they can benefit from lower marginal cost per unit because of an economy of scale. Maybe Linux, being mostly developed already and free to them, is cheaper than whatever they might invent that they could "own." Maybe in the long run it costs them a lot less to provide tech support because so many Linux geeks in this world will teach you how to do stuff just to impress you with how smart they are. Maybe they gain because Linux upgrades itself out there in the world.
Maybe, to be a little more cosmic, altruism has a survival value, both for our species and for us as individuals, equal to or greater than the survival value of selfishness, and that helps explain why there is so much altruism existing in human society. Even proprietary greed-head software companies with bad hair try to tell everyone they are really being altruistic -- why is that in their self-interest?
Maybe I just like saying maybe. Maybe maybe maybe. Maybe I'm amazed. Maybe we're both crazy, I don't know, maybe that's why I love her so.
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>>The home-owners took 10 times as much care of their houses, even though they were very poor ... If it's mine, I'm not going to mess it up!
Yeah, I've seen that. But it also makes you wonder about the landlords. They own it, and they don't take care of it. What's up with that?
Maybe this analogy even extends to software somehow. I'm not the one using it, that clown who "licensed" it is. Why should I care if it's buggy and freezes his system or corrupts his data? I just made it and sold it to him. I don't actually have to live with it.
Somewhere in here there's an idea about giving a rat's ass even if your own ass isn't on the line. Maybe that's a two-way street. Maybe we could all earn, buy, or license some good Karma here if we cared to...
>>all that money IBM and other companies are investing in linux , all that money they pay their developers they eventually get back by adding a linux/free software tax to their produts' prices. Oh, well, what if not? Maybe Linux is productive for IBM and it's better for them if it thrives. Maybe, they sell more machines if they load Linux, and then they can benefit from lower marginal cost per unit because of an economy of scale. Maybe Linux, being mostly developed already and free to them, is cheaper than whatever they might invent that they could "own." Maybe in the long run it costs them a lot less to provide tech support because so many Linux geeks in this world will teach you how to do stuff just to impress you with how smart they are. Maybe they gain because Linux upgrades itself out there in the world. Maybe, to be a little more cosmic, altruism has a survival value, both for our species and for us as individuals, equal to or greater than the survival value of selfishness, and that helps explain why there is so much altruism existing in human society. Even proprietary greed-head software companies with bad hair try to tell everyone they are really being altruistic -- why is that in their self-interest? Maybe I just like saying maybe. Maybe maybe maybe. Maybe I'm amazed. Maybe we're both crazy, I don't know, maybe that's why I love her so.