What is being sold is not the software. What is being sold is a licence to use the software. So if you want to resell your licence to someone else, go ahead. But that means you no longer have the licence to use said software. That's all.
I sell software in the form of licences. If someone resells their licence, I have no obligation to support the seller anymore. I do have an obligation to support the buyer, since they have bought the licence (less any time or licence renewal restrictions).
What's tricky is that, people being human, it's too easy to resell your licence and "forget" to delete your copy. The "threat" of no longer being supported doesn't worry people enough, hence publishers get more draconian about resale rights.
The basic assumption everyone is making is that artists should get paid. Maybe that's totally wrong. Perhaps the whole idea was only a temporary concept and now it's finally ending. So what if we are entering a world where a certain segment of society can't make a living. Big deal. It's happened before to other people. The laws of economics are not here to make everyone happy. Move along to what works (like cooking food) and stop bitching about what has stopped working. Art is much more pure without money anyway.
Why do we give so much importance to this concept called "work"? The only real laws that need to be addressed are the laws of physics, so work is purely a human social construction. So what if none of us has jobs and machines are doing everything? So what? Why is that a big deal? Work is merely a means to an end anyway, not an end in itself.
Any advanced alien civilization would look at us and find our troubles humorous. I certainly don't work for the sake of work -- I'm doing it precisely so I don't have to do it later. Life would be far grander if we could all focus on our hobbies and other true interests instead.
Not even in theory. Communism fails because demanding that people be altruistic defeats the entire point of being altruistic, since altruism is an expression of free will. Think of it this way: in a deterministic system (like a computer), what you do doesn't matter since it's all predetermined anyway. No free will, hence no ability to prove that you are behaving altruistically. Communism tries to make altrusim deterministic, hence communists cannot truly be altruistic. Or, a gift is not a gift if others force you to give it. It has to be your own free choice to give it.
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I sell software in the form of licences. If someone resells their licence, I have no obligation to support the seller anymore. I do have an obligation to support the buyer, since they have bought the licence (less any time or licence renewal restrictions).
What's tricky is that, people being human, it's too easy to resell your licence and "forget" to delete your copy. The "threat" of no longer being supported doesn't worry people enough, hence publishers get more draconian about resale rights.
The basic assumption everyone is making is that artists should get paid. Maybe that's totally wrong. Perhaps the whole idea was only a temporary concept and now it's finally ending. So what if we are entering a world where a certain segment of society can't make a living. Big deal. It's happened before to other people. The laws of economics are not here to make everyone happy. Move along to what works (like cooking food) and stop bitching about what has stopped working. Art is much more pure without money anyway.
Any advanced alien civilization would look at us and find our troubles humorous. I certainly don't work for the sake of work -- I'm doing it precisely so I don't have to do it later. Life would be far grander if we could all focus on our hobbies and other true interests instead.
Not even in theory. Communism fails because demanding that people be altruistic defeats the entire point of being altruistic, since altruism is an expression of free will. Think of it this way: in a deterministic system (like a computer), what you do doesn't matter since it's all predetermined anyway. No free will, hence no ability to prove that you are behaving altruistically. Communism tries to make altrusim deterministic, hence communists cannot truly be altruistic. Or, a gift is not a gift if others force you to give it. It has to be your own free choice to give it.