My ex-girlfriend used M&Ms as painkillers in fact. How they were supposed to work when she *knew* they were just M&Ms I don't know, but hey, as long as she was happy...
The other surprise in there is that the often-touted-as-super-reliable Thinkpads fare very badly.
It shouldn't be a big surprise if you've talked to long-time Thinkpad fans that have recently switched to Lenovo. There's been a few positive opinions here and there, but the majority agrees that quality isn't nearly what it used to be under good ol' Big Blue.
Pity, though, because I'd rather dip my own testicles in boiling oil than buy a Dell or Apple computer, which leaves me with either overpriced Sony or ugly Toshiba as a choice for my next notebook.
similarly those who receive games early who have done nothing illegal (and neither have the suppliers because there's no actual legal duty not to release early, just industry agreement) but get blocked access from using a product they've paid for until release day.
So? blocking authentication servers until release day isn't illegal either, as far as I'm aware. If there's no actual legal duty for them to let you play the game before its release, you have no reason to complain, right?
Personally, I just play XBox 360 games
Fuck, just go read your own second paragraph in its entirety. Console games have risen in price dramatically over the years, and if Xbox Live isn't a shoddy excuse for milking their own customers up to their last penny, I don't know what is. But who cares, right? you're still playing MW2, and you're doing so without financing Valve! win for you.
what I do ask is that people grow some will power and learn to start putting their money where their mouth is on what matters to them- don't bitch about DRM on an open platform like the PC if you're going to buy from Steam for example. If you don't, then don't come crying when you realise things are costing you more and more, and when as it has with the parent, it comes round to bite you.
The GP got bit by his own attempt at 'gaming' the system for his own gain. Do that on your dearest Xbox and Microsoft will ban you likewise, preventing you from playing *anything* online until you buy a new machine.
So, put your money where your mouth is, sell your Xbox360 on eBay, and start gaming on Linux exclusively as the PS3 ain't much better either.
Your statement of my position: GIMP is not as popular as people make it out to be.
My statement of my position: The word 'gimp' primarily refers to disability.
Back in the proper context, yes, the word excel means to go beyond, by default. It does not mean software outside of a computer context. The term 'excellent' does not mean 'spreadsheet-like'.
Wrong.
My statement of your position: "gimpy" should refer mostly to The GIMP software, but doesn't.
My statement of my position: "gimpy" cannot refer to The GIMP software, hence it doesn't.
The fact that the word "gimpy" is somewhat related to "gimp" does not make it any more related to the software that the word "excellence" is to Microsoft's spreadsheet program, so using a Google search for the term "gimpy" to prove use of the word "gimp" outside of the software is still common is foolish.
I'm a native English-speaker, so I don't generally seek input from non-English speakers as to how the language should be used.
So? I'm not telling you how it should be used, I'm telling you how it *is* being used. The simple fact is, the word 'gimp' is pretty much dead in contexts other than 'weird free image editor', its original meaning no more important in modern conversations than that of 'gay' being a synonym of 'happy'.
That or you know no one outside of an opensource savvy niche.
Neither does Google, apparently.
Here's a simple test, go ask your mom what it means.
Given that she doesn't speak English, I think either she'll say "one of those image program thingies?" or nothing at all. Like, you know, most of the world's population.
Or, perhaps we expand your own test. What if we search for the word gimpy? Or maybe gimped?
Perhaps you should search for "excellence" as proof that Excel isn't really as popular as people make it out to be, then. Or perhaps you should realize absolutely nobody would use the word "gimpy" with relation to The GIMP.
But it is interesting, however. 198k matches for "gimped", while "gimp" has nearly 3.6 millions... wanna guess why that is?
Face it, even in the English world, the term "gimp" is dead. Outside of it, however, it was never alive to begin with.
What does the UI have to do with anything? the point here is that Regular Joe doesn't need image editing beyond what GNOME's crappy little app offers so, if anything, it should serve as a wake-up call to the hundreds of trolls arguing that a Photoshop-equivalent is necessary for wider Linux adoption, finally proving that they're a minority within a minority within a minority.
If you're reffering to Gnumeric with that "lousy excel-wannabe thingy" comment, I believe you should *really* spend more than five minutes with it. Gnumeric is what Excel wants to be when it grows up, it has everything a spreadsheet needs and nothing they don't, and is in fact the only spreadsheet I, a LaTeX user, can stand to use.
But if you're reffering to OpenOffice Calc, no probs mate;)
Because its what the project has always had, because people in general dislike change, because they'd have to find a name that hasn't been taken already (go ask the Firefox guys how easy that was for them), and most importantly, because for 99% of the world the word "gimp" means "that free image editor with the floating stuff".
Don't believe me? go make a Google search for the word "gimp", then count the number of non-GIMP gimp entries on the first ten pages. And if you've got some extra time, tell us the page of the first occurrence, and the first one outside of dictionaries and wikis as well.
Seriously, you'd have better chances of retaking the word "gay" to mean "happy" than you'd have of getting "gimp" to mean anything else other than The GNU Image Manipulation Program.
Sorry, but no, I don't want a Photoshop interface on *anything*, even The GIMP. The GIMP's interface is cluttered as hell, but that of Photoshop is just obnoxious: it knows it's used by people to do everything from coloring drawings to retouching photos to creating logos and web graphics, so it throws *everything* at you to see what sticks. You could use Photoshop for an entire year, and yet have never used half the buttons on the toolbar, nevermind the stuff on the pull-down menus.
No, you want a good interface? look at Inkscape or Xara. They're applications that know what they are and don't even *try* to pretend otherwise. As a result, sure, they're not Photoshop replacements for 90% of the crap people do with it, but for the remaining 10% they're vastly superior alternatives to Adobe's cashcow.
And yes, there's plenty of people who use it for vector drawings instead of Illustrator, much like there's plenty of people who use it for photo manipulation instead of Lightroom. And the problem with Photoshop is precisely the fact that they still cater to those idiots, on their interface, on their default options, on *everything*. And the worst part is, I've heard they've even integrated video editing on the latest version, as moronic as that sounds.
If I can't install X easily and have it run relatively efficiently without bloat and unresponsiveness, then X - or the package manager - needs to be fixed.
True, but the key word is "relatively". Relatively to OSX and Windows, X even at its most bloated is *still* a paradigm of efficiency. Its just that, once you're familiar with it, you can make it do even more with less.
I guess it's a bit like Emacs. For the uninitiated, it's an extremely capable editor. For those who have mastered it, however, it's God's greatest gift to Mankind.
Given that Qt ships out of the box with a Clearlooks engine, and that Qt is a better multi-platform framework, I don't know why there hasn't been some serious discussion to perhaps move a future Gnome to Qt.
Perhaps because Gtk is a better multi-language framework, and the F/OSS community loves having a diversity of programming languages. Sure, Qt works great with C++, not so bad with Python and Ruby and there's even some Java bindings floating around somewhere, but what about C#? Pascal? Lisp? PHP? Lua? hell, even pure, unadultered C?
And that's leaving aside all the problems inherent to a complete rewrite of a desktop enviroment, which are problematic despite whatever Shuttleworth may wish for.
He may be a snob, but that doesn't mean he's wrong. I've often said that the mark of a poor programmer is that they can't understand their own code after being a single week away from it, but it takes a truly special breed of idiot not to understand their own code the moment while they're writing it.
The.NET Micro runtime (ie, what they open-sourced now) weights around 300k, not 200 MBs, and if what you want is standardization then you should get together with a few mobile gadget manufacturers and establish a standard for future.NET runtimes, so that you have a baseline to rely on and compare yourself as you fix bugs and implement new features in yours.
Sure, it ain't gonna be *easy*, but it's never easy for a lone guy to change the world. This, at least, removes the need for Microsoft to OK your idea before you put it in practice though.
Yeah, because refusing to give an interview is [i]"deciding what is truth and what is not"[/i]. Riiiiight. Let's face it, the whole Fox News thing is just Fox overdramatizing for the purposes of creating a controversy, as is usual for US TV stations.
Oh, and yeah, lying (See CBS and their fake GWB NG documents) and being a bunch of asshats is protected by the Freedom of Speech and the Freedom of the Press.
Funny, but that's exactly how I've always felt about Apple's Darwin. Give away everything minus the actually useful stuff.
Except, of course, that Mono has actually done a fairly good job of replacing the 'missing' functionality with viable alternatives, so this move is less about "yay! new stuff for me to play with" and more "yay! this is sure to help the Mono guys port their enviroment to new architectures sooner".
The best IDE for.NET development is still Visual Studio by a long shot, and licenses for it aren't cheap. Plus increasing their mindshare among programmers and all that, of course.
It has been shown time and time again MSFT only makes products good enough to beat the competition through brute force.
Really? where? I'll be the first to admit that MS Office and related products are all a stinking shithole of software engineering, but the rest of their products are pretty good. Their server OSes may not be UNIX but they're still pretty good, their IDE is second to none, I've heard nothing but good things from professional programmers about the languages they've recently developed (C#, F# and Silverlight, complains about their weaponization of the latter aside), and their whole hardware division is excellent aside from their QA issues with the Xbox line.
You can literally hand any one an iphone and they can figure out how to make calls with it and surf the web without being told how.
You can literally hand anyone who knows how to read *any* cellphone and they'll figure out how to make calls with them. It's all about "pressing the required numbers" then "pressing the big, OK-ish/phone looking button". Web surfing I can give you that it *could* theoretically confuse the less-able members of our society in some of the less "web oriented" phones out there, but it hardly requires a degree in IT either.
This is another area where Europe is way ahead of the USA, where we still harbor the quaint notion that the truth is an absolute defense.
Unless the truth is regarded as an 'issue of national security', then even otherwise-peaceful Slashdotters will be arguing for you to be charged of treason and executed for it.
Sorry, but your Freedom of Speech got limited a lot farther back than just the last couple decades in the US.
And as for your "artificial scarcity" thing, that's a stupid point, because once again you're focusing on what doesn't matter, the nearly costless distribution, and not on what costs money, developer work. In other words, people don't pay for the copy, people pay for the service of me developing it.
Then charge for the service of you developing it, not for the individual copies. As nearly the entire industry does today.
What god damn monopoly? Do you even know what a monopoly is? No ones granting me any monopoly, so what the fuck are you babbling about?
Copyright is a time-limited, government-granted monopoly. That's how it was first defined, and that's how it still works.
There's little funnier to do on Slashdot than trolling suckers like you into trying to explain why everything should be free. Which is where you disappoint me, nowhere in your post are you arguing for why you think things should be the way you'd like them to be, two thirds of it is personal insults on me and my work which you know nothing about in a pathetic effort to counter-troll me, the rest is in essence quoting random bits I said and saying "no ur wrong".
At least you do admit to being a troll. Thing is, I don't *think* copyright should be eliminated so I can hardly argue for it here, it's just your arguments against it are pathetic and make the rest of us look like lazy, greedy bastards.
Try starting your own software company with no funds, find out for yourself how much it takes to make even a modest living out of it, see how well the sales keep up when you stop working on the program and stop promoting it (hint: nothing sells itself), then come back here and repeat your trolling attempts once you have a clue what you're talking about.
Why would I? the standard "you pay, I write" model pays better, takes less work, and isn't threatened by basic human nature. Again, get a real job and stop crying about the 'dirty' pirates 'stealing' your work.
There's a reason why things are like this, and that's because no one would bother writing professional-quality software if they didn't get paid enough for it.
Wrong. Fewer perhaps, but "no one" is patently false.
Think all you want about how immaterial things should be free, but if all information somehow had to be free then you wouldn't have anymore professional software around, you'd be stuck with crap like GIMP or Blender and would never again see anything like Photoshop or 3DS Max.
Next time, try picking your examples better. Blender originated as a commercial, closed-source application and was only made open-source later.
There's thousands of man-hours of work that go into each such commercial program, man-hours from highly qualified and well-paid people. Someone has to pay for that work, cause if no one does then these people won't touch that ever again and look for a real job that pays.
There are other ways to finance software development other than artificial scarcity. If you were truly a part of the field you'd know it already, as most of the world's software doesn't rely on it.
By the way, not believing in private property is communism. It's like, someone painstakingly creates something and then some wanker like you comes up and goes "this is now property of the people, thank you".
And government-granted monopolies are socialism. Your point, if you had any?
TL;DR you sound like a broke ass basement dweller who wants all his porn, games, movies and music for free cause has no money, and who'd never create anything worth a dime, so it's easy for you to whine and demand that everything is offered to you for free.
Funny, you sound like a broke ass basement dweller who wants to get paid by every one of his farts cause he has no money, and who'd never do honest work so its easy for you to whine and demand that everyone pay tributes to you for the priviledge of looking upon the crap you did years ago.
I'm a self employed software developer and make a living off a program I created all on my own, I create value with my work, you wouldn't know what that means.
Mustn't be a very good living, otherwise you wouldn't be crying off here, would you? get a real job, learn how the world truly works, then come back here and repeat your little rant if you can.
If I build a house, I get paid by the people who use it.
No you don't, you get paid by the people who decide to buy it. Whether they decide to live in it, demolish it to the ground or simply keep it as an 'investment' is irrelevant, after that sale you hold no control over it whatsoever and if, for some reason, you don't like the number of people living there and think you deserve to get more, you're fucked.
If I put the same effort into, say, a film script, that might take anywhere from 6 weeks to a year to write, why should people get it for free?
If I put the same effort into, say, getting a nice, unique haircut, why should people get to look at it for free? capitalism doesn't reward effort, only need. And once the script is done, your work isn't needed anymore so what you should be doing is pitching your script-writing capabilities to a studio that may profit from it, not artificially trying to restrict the supply of a commodity so you can control it.
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My ex-girlfriend used M&Ms as painkillers in fact. How they were supposed to work when she *knew* they were just M&Ms I don't know, but hey, as long as she was happy...
The other surprise in there is that the often-touted-as-super-reliable Thinkpads fare very badly.
It shouldn't be a big surprise if you've talked to long-time Thinkpad fans that have recently switched to Lenovo. There's been a few positive opinions here and there, but the majority agrees that quality isn't nearly what it used to be under good ol' Big Blue.
Pity, though, because I'd rather dip my own testicles in boiling oil than buy a Dell or Apple computer, which leaves me with either overpriced Sony or ugly Toshiba as a choice for my next notebook.
similarly those who receive games early who have done nothing illegal (and neither have the suppliers because there's no actual legal duty not to release early, just industry agreement) but get blocked access from using a product they've paid for until release day.
So? blocking authentication servers until release day isn't illegal either, as far as I'm aware. If there's no actual legal duty for them to let you play the game before its release, you have no reason to complain, right?
Personally, I just play XBox 360 games
Fuck, just go read your own second paragraph in its entirety. Console games have risen in price dramatically over the years, and if Xbox Live isn't a shoddy excuse for milking their own customers up to their last penny, I don't know what is. But who cares, right? you're still playing MW2, and you're doing so without financing Valve! win for you.
what I do ask is that people grow some will power and learn to start putting their money where their mouth is on what matters to them- don't bitch about DRM on an open platform like the PC if you're going to buy from Steam for example. If you don't, then don't come crying when you realise things are costing you more and more, and when as it has with the parent, it comes round to bite you.
The GP got bit by his own attempt at 'gaming' the system for his own gain. Do that on your dearest Xbox and Microsoft will ban you likewise, preventing you from playing *anything* online until you buy a new machine.
So, put your money where your mouth is, sell your Xbox360 on eBay, and start gaming on Linux exclusively as the PS3 ain't much better either.
This is a classic straw man.
Your statement of my position: GIMP is not as popular as people make it out to be.
My statement of my position: The word 'gimp' primarily refers to disability.
Back in the proper context, yes, the word excel means to go beyond, by default. It does not mean software outside of a computer context. The term 'excellent' does not mean 'spreadsheet-like'.
Wrong.
My statement of your position: "gimpy" should refer mostly to The GIMP software, but doesn't.
My statement of my position: "gimpy" cannot refer to The GIMP software, hence it doesn't.
The fact that the word "gimpy" is somewhat related to "gimp" does not make it any more related to the software that the word "excellence" is to Microsoft's spreadsheet program, so using a Google search for the term "gimpy" to prove use of the word "gimp" outside of the software is still common is foolish.
I'm a native English-speaker, so I don't generally seek input from non-English speakers as to how the language should be used.
So? I'm not telling you how it should be used, I'm telling you how it *is* being used. The simple fact is, the word 'gimp' is pretty much dead in contexts other than 'weird free image editor', its original meaning no more important in modern conversations than that of 'gay' being a synonym of 'happy'.
That or you know no one outside of an opensource savvy niche.
Neither does Google, apparently.
Here's a simple test, go ask your mom what it means.
Given that she doesn't speak English, I think either she'll say "one of those image program thingies?" or nothing at all. Like, you know, most of the world's population.
Or, perhaps we expand your own test. What if we search for the word gimpy? Or maybe gimped?
Perhaps you should search for "excellence" as proof that Excel isn't really as popular as people make it out to be, then. Or perhaps you should realize absolutely nobody would use the word "gimpy" with relation to The GIMP.
But it is interesting, however. 198k matches for "gimped", while "gimp" has nearly 3.6 millions... wanna guess why that is?
Face it, even in the English world, the term "gimp" is dead. Outside of it, however, it was never alive to begin with.
What does the UI have to do with anything? the point here is that Regular Joe doesn't need image editing beyond what GNOME's crappy little app offers so, if anything, it should serve as a wake-up call to the hundreds of trolls arguing that a Photoshop-equivalent is necessary for wider Linux adoption, finally proving that they're a minority within a minority within a minority.
If you're reffering to Gnumeric with that "lousy excel-wannabe thingy" comment, I believe you should *really* spend more than five minutes with it. Gnumeric is what Excel wants to be when it grows up, it has everything a spreadsheet needs and nothing they don't, and is in fact the only spreadsheet I, a LaTeX user, can stand to use.
But if you're reffering to OpenOffice Calc, no probs mate ;)
Because its what the project has always had, because people in general dislike change, because they'd have to find a name that hasn't been taken already (go ask the Firefox guys how easy that was for them), and most importantly, because for 99% of the world the word "gimp" means "that free image editor with the floating stuff".
Don't believe me? go make a Google search for the word "gimp", then count the number of non-GIMP gimp entries on the first ten pages. And if you've got some extra time, tell us the page of the first occurrence, and the first one outside of dictionaries and wikis as well.
Seriously, you'd have better chances of retaking the word "gay" to mean "happy" than you'd have of getting "gimp" to mean anything else other than The GNU Image Manipulation Program.
Hi, then, it appears we haven't met.
Sorry, but no, I don't want a Photoshop interface on *anything*, even The GIMP. The GIMP's interface is cluttered as hell, but that of Photoshop is just obnoxious: it knows it's used by people to do everything from coloring drawings to retouching photos to creating logos and web graphics, so it throws *everything* at you to see what sticks. You could use Photoshop for an entire year, and yet have never used half the buttons on the toolbar, nevermind the stuff on the pull-down menus.
No, you want a good interface? look at Inkscape or Xara. They're applications that know what they are and don't even *try* to pretend otherwise. As a result, sure, they're not Photoshop replacements for 90% of the crap people do with it, but for the remaining 10% they're vastly superior alternatives to Adobe's cashcow.
And yes, there's plenty of people who use it for vector drawings instead of Illustrator, much like there's plenty of people who use it for photo manipulation instead of Lightroom. And the problem with Photoshop is precisely the fact that they still cater to those idiots, on their interface, on their default options, on *everything*. And the worst part is, I've heard they've even integrated video editing on the latest version, as moronic as that sounds.
If I can't install X easily and have it run relatively efficiently without bloat and unresponsiveness, then X - or the package manager - needs to be fixed.
True, but the key word is "relatively". Relatively to OSX and Windows, X even at its most bloated is *still* a paradigm of efficiency. Its just that, once you're familiar with it, you can make it do even more with less.
I guess it's a bit like Emacs. For the uninitiated, it's an extremely capable editor. For those who have mastered it, however, it's God's greatest gift to Mankind.
So, you argue that this is a security measure to protect systems that are already compromised with keyloggers? I... see, right... *backs away slowly*
Given that Qt ships out of the box with a Clearlooks engine, and that Qt is a better multi-platform framework, I don't know why there hasn't been some serious discussion to perhaps move a future Gnome to Qt.
Perhaps because Gtk is a better multi-language framework, and the F/OSS community loves having a diversity of programming languages. Sure, Qt works great with C++, not so bad with Python and Ruby and there's even some Java bindings floating around somewhere, but what about C#? Pascal? Lisp? PHP? Lua? hell, even pure, unadultered C?
And that's leaving aside all the problems inherent to a complete rewrite of a desktop enviroment, which are problematic despite whatever Shuttleworth may wish for.
Satisfying anybody else who wants more than you do. But that ought to be obvious.
True, but with NVidia you have to deal with their manufacturing bugs, and software problems are easier to fix.
He may be a snob, but that doesn't mean he's wrong. I've often said that the mark of a poor programmer is that they can't understand their own code after being a single week away from it, but it takes a truly special breed of idiot not to understand their own code the moment while they're writing it.
Yourself included.
The .NET Micro runtime (ie, what they open-sourced now) weights around 300k, not 200 MBs, and if what you want is standardization then you should get together with a few mobile gadget manufacturers and establish a standard for future .NET runtimes, so that you have a baseline to rely on and compare yourself as you fix bugs and implement new features in yours.
Sure, it ain't gonna be *easy*, but it's never easy for a lone guy to change the world. This, at least, removes the need for Microsoft to OK your idea before you put it in practice though.
Yeah, because refusing to give an interview is [i]"deciding what is truth and what is not"[/i]. Riiiiight. Let's face it, the whole Fox News thing is just Fox overdramatizing for the purposes of creating a controversy, as is usual for US TV stations.
Oh, and yeah, lying (See CBS and their fake GWB NG documents) and being a bunch of asshats is protected by the Freedom of Speech and the Freedom of the Press.
If it were so, libel wouldn't be a crime.
Funny, but that's exactly how I've always felt about Apple's Darwin. Give away everything minus the actually useful stuff.
Except, of course, that Mono has actually done a fairly good job of replacing the 'missing' functionality with viable alternatives, so this move is less about "yay! new stuff for me to play with" and more "yay! this is sure to help the Mono guys port their enviroment to new architectures sooner".
The best IDE for .NET development is still Visual Studio by a long shot, and licenses for it aren't cheap. Plus increasing their mindshare among programmers and all that, of course.
It has been shown time and time again MSFT only makes products good enough to beat the competition through brute force.
Really? where? I'll be the first to admit that MS Office and related products are all a stinking shithole of software engineering, but the rest of their products are pretty good. Their server OSes may not be UNIX but they're still pretty good, their IDE is second to none, I've heard nothing but good things from professional programmers about the languages they've recently developed (C#, F# and Silverlight, complains about their weaponization of the latter aside), and their whole hardware division is excellent aside from their QA issues with the Xbox line.
You can literally hand any one an iphone and they can figure out how to make calls with it and surf the web without being told how.
You can literally hand anyone who knows how to read *any* cellphone and they'll figure out how to make calls with them. It's all about "pressing the required numbers" then "pressing the big, OK-ish/phone looking button". Web surfing I can give you that it *could* theoretically confuse the less-able members of our society in some of the less "web oriented" phones out there, but it hardly requires a degree in IT either.
This is another area where Europe is way ahead of the USA, where we still harbor the quaint notion that the truth is an absolute defense.
Unless the truth is regarded as an 'issue of national security', then even otherwise-peaceful Slashdotters will be arguing for you to be charged of treason and executed for it.
Sorry, but your Freedom of Speech got limited a lot farther back than just the last couple decades in the US.
And as for your "artificial scarcity" thing, that's a stupid point, because once again you're focusing on what doesn't matter, the nearly costless distribution, and not on what costs money, developer work. In other words, people don't pay for the copy, people pay for the service of me developing it.
Then charge for the service of you developing it, not for the individual copies. As nearly the entire industry does today.
What god damn monopoly? Do you even know what a monopoly is? No ones granting me any monopoly, so what the fuck are you babbling about?
Copyright is a time-limited, government-granted monopoly. That's how it was first defined, and that's how it still works.
There's little funnier to do on Slashdot than trolling suckers like you into trying to explain why everything should be free. Which is where you disappoint me, nowhere in your post are you arguing for why you think things should be the way you'd like them to be, two thirds of it is personal insults on me and my work which you know nothing about in a pathetic effort to counter-troll me, the rest is in essence quoting random bits I said and saying "no ur wrong".
At least you do admit to being a troll. Thing is, I don't *think* copyright should be eliminated so I can hardly argue for it here, it's just your arguments against it are pathetic and make the rest of us look like lazy, greedy bastards.
Try starting your own software company with no funds, find out for yourself how much it takes to make even a modest living out of it, see how well the sales keep up when you stop working on the program and stop promoting it (hint: nothing sells itself), then come back here and repeat your trolling attempts once you have a clue what you're talking about.
Why would I? the standard "you pay, I write" model pays better, takes less work, and isn't threatened by basic human nature. Again, get a real job and stop crying about the 'dirty' pirates 'stealing' your work.
There's a reason why things are like this, and that's because no one would bother writing professional-quality software if they didn't get paid enough for it.
Wrong. Fewer perhaps, but "no one" is patently false.
Think all you want about how immaterial things should be free, but if all information somehow had to be free then you wouldn't have anymore professional software around, you'd be stuck with crap like GIMP or Blender and would never again see anything like Photoshop or 3DS Max.
Next time, try picking your examples better. Blender originated as a commercial, closed-source application and was only made open-source later.
There's thousands of man-hours of work that go into each such commercial program, man-hours from highly qualified and well-paid people. Someone has to pay for that work, cause if no one does then these people won't touch that ever again and look for a real job that pays.
There are other ways to finance software development other than artificial scarcity. If you were truly a part of the field you'd know it already, as most of the world's software doesn't rely on it.
By the way, not believing in private property is communism. It's like, someone painstakingly creates something and then some wanker like you comes up and goes "this is now property of the people, thank you".
And government-granted monopolies are socialism. Your point, if you had any?
TL;DR you sound like a broke ass basement dweller who wants all his porn, games, movies and music for free cause has no money, and who'd never create anything worth a dime, so it's easy for you to whine and demand that everything is offered to you for free.
Funny, you sound like a broke ass basement dweller who wants to get paid by every one of his farts cause he has no money, and who'd never do honest work so its easy for you to whine and demand that everyone pay tributes to you for the priviledge of looking upon the crap you did years ago.
I'm a self employed software developer and make a living off a program I created all on my own, I create value with my work, you wouldn't know what that means.
Mustn't be a very good living, otherwise you wouldn't be crying off here, would you? get a real job, learn how the world truly works, then come back here and repeat your little rant if you can.
If I build a house, I get paid by the people who use it.
No you don't, you get paid by the people who decide to buy it. Whether they decide to live in it, demolish it to the ground or simply keep it as an 'investment' is irrelevant, after that sale you hold no control over it whatsoever and if, for some reason, you don't like the number of people living there and think you deserve to get more, you're fucked.
If I put the same effort into, say, a film script, that might take anywhere from 6 weeks to a year to write, why should people get it for free?
If I put the same effort into, say, getting a nice, unique haircut, why should people get to look at it for free? capitalism doesn't reward effort, only need. And once the script is done, your work isn't needed anymore so what you should be doing is pitching your script-writing capabilities to a studio that may profit from it, not artificially trying to restrict the supply of a commodity so you can control it.