On 12-Oct-06, at 11:38 AM, Vihan Pandey wrote:
Does that mean you would have absolutely no problem at all in exploitative corporates taking your hard work, (sometimes) turning it into crap and making a huge pile of cash on it ?
strange as it may seem to some people, the danger of people 'pirating' software and making more profit than the developer is practically non-existent. Any moron stupid enough to pirate software would not have the brains to develop and support it in a better manner than the original user. (This is different in the case of one closed source guy pirating anothers). Why pay for a cheap duplicate when the original is available free and supported by the creator. I personaly am all for giving anyone the freedom to do anything whatsoever with my software - because all I am doing is giving him the freedom to hang himself. And, if i am short of funds i can always sue him for violation of copyright ;-)