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Living Room / Re: Confessions of an Internet “Shock Jock”
« Last post by 40hz on February 24, 2010, 02:13 PM »"Time wounds all heels."
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What I always worry about in such cases is the scenario where you have the public willing to pay $X for something (whether it be music, art, software), and have a line of middlemen working furiously to make sure the bulk of that money goes to them instead of the creator.-mouser (February 24, 2010, 07:24 AM)
why would I pay someone to "reinvent the same wheel" over and over?Because that's the only way you'll ever get a better wheel with a rubber tire instead of just the same old stone disk with a hole in it.-zridling (February 21, 2010, 10:57 AM)-Stoic Joker (February 21, 2010, 01:08 PM)
)I always tough of GPL as a way to make people work for free.
- Make them create software and give support for it. While giving you the right to put in on a CD.
- Make it so that anyone that create software based on the original must give you also the right to put it on a CD.
- You then put them into CDs, market them, charge for the CDs and get all the money without needing to pay the developers. Making sure that Instead of saying you are making all this money from the software, you are getting the money for support.
It worked for Red Had, Mandriva, IBM, etc. People working for free while making companies richer. A sort of willing slavery, only we don't call it that.-rxantos (December 27, 2009, 11:53 AM)
Selling Free Software
Many people believe that the spirit of the GNU Project is that you should not charge money for distributing copies of software, or that you should charge as little as possible — just enough to cover the cost. This is a misunderstanding.
Actually, we encourage people who redistribute free software to charge as much as they wish or can. If this seems surprising to you, please read on.
The word “free” has two legitimate general meanings; it can refer either to freedom or to price. When we speak of “free software”, we're talking about freedom, not price. (Think of “free speech”, not “free beer”.) Specifically, it means that a user is free to run the program, change the program, and redistribute the program with or without changes.
Free programs are sometimes distributed gratis, and sometimes for a substantial price. Often the same program is available in both ways from different places. The program is free regardless of the price, because users have freedom in using it.
Nonfree programs are usually sold for a high price, but sometimes a store will give you a copy at no charge. That doesn't make it free software, though. Price or no price, the program is nonfree because users don't have freedom.
Since free software is not a matter of price, a low price doesn't make the software free, or even closer to free. So if you are redistributing copies of free software, you might as well charge a substantial fee and make some money. Redistributing free software is a good and legitimate activity; if you do it, you might as well make a profit from it.
Mendeley?-fenixproductions (December 27, 2009, 06:12 AM)
I know what I need to do.- Discover the Droid fonts. They're nice. Along with that, subpixel rendering. Makes every word on the screen crystal clear with a decent monitor.-zridling (December 21, 2009, 05:35 AM)
Am I being daft? I don't see any information on that website about how to get the Droid fonts for linux (or if they're available for Windows that would be cool, too). Do you have to use Chromium OS?-Deozaan (December 25, 2009, 05:42 AM)
On the flip side, I have Win7 running in a VM and it works fine. Go figure!-zridling (December 24, 2009, 01:14 AM)
40hz: my gripe against multibooting isn't making it work (pretty easy, just install OSes in the right order-f0dder (December 23, 2009, 08:10 PM)
) But either way, it's a problem I've seen.Sharing HOME between distros sounds a bit dangeorus... don't you risk .config files being clobbered?
(We're starting to get seriously off topic here BTW!You started by proposing a text editor.)
-40hz (December 22, 2009, 06:54 PM)-Tuxman (December 22, 2009, 06:56 PM)
But maybe we can wrap it up by acknowledging we each have very different ideas about what constitutes a word processor application. (It may be fun to discuss, but I think we're about to start going in circles on this topic.)Made for writing contests AFAIK.-Tuxman (December 22, 2009, 06:29 PM)
Would you say Vim is a word processor then, too?-Tuxman (December 22, 2009, 06:29 PM)
)WriteMonkey is not a word processor.-Tuxman (December 22, 2009, 03:22 PM)
i think a harder and more subtle lesson for people to come to terms with is how many benefits there are to be gained from just getting something finished and working, even if it's flawed and not as good as you want it to be. And how much focus and determination and it takes to do that while the siren song is calling out to you to extend the project longer and spend more time improving things.-mouser (December 22, 2009, 02:35 PM)
