t. no arguments.
Software License
Jordan Reed
Dominic Flores
No it's just not worth wasting my time to argue with retards.
David Butler
You're trying too hard to fit in.
Jason Foster
...
Nathan Gomez
Alice creates a machine and calculates the cost of the parts to cost $20000. My business advice is to sell the machine for nothing less than $20000.
Bob writes a computer program and calculates the cost of developing the program to cost $20000. My business advice is to sell the program for nothing less than $20000.
Charlie draws an architectural plan and calculates the cost of drawing the plan to cost $20000. My business advice is to sell the plan for nothing less than $20000.
Dan composes a number of movie symphonies and calculates the cost to cost $20000. My business advice is to sell the machine for nothing less than $20000.
This is a ridiculous business model!
Aiden Allen
Why do you assume that the fully $20000 has to be from one entity? The cost could be spread over multiple. Imagine a crowdfunding like site where people contribute money and different tiers have different rewards like t shirts and stuff along with the software. Once all the money reaches a certain threshold the software is released if it's already made or begins development if it hasn't been made yet.
Lincoln Scott
I don't assume it at all. That is very much a legitimate way of financing software development. There are also more ways of financing software development that can be done.
The point I was addressing is that if you can't earn a profit by being a software distributor, then don't run your business model as a software distributor. You have to change your business model to do something else. I was implying that you change your model to being a software developer, not a software distributor.
Benjamin Cook
It's ridiculous because you're going to bizarre lengths to shoehorn the GPL philosophy which 99% of the customers don't give a shit about and commercial developers do not see as viable. Hey Alice, we have this great software, but it's $250,000. AND IT GIVES YOU FREEEEEEEEEDOM!!!!!!! Go form a cooperative and make a collective purchase, and then it can be free for all!
Thomas Jenkins
So you're saying the business model of how all of society worked all throughout human history is unviable? It's very simple: if it costs $20000, you don't sell it for anything less than that! That is how business worked all throughout history.
The reason why commercial enterprises don't do it this way is because they want to control society with their software. If they didn't want to do that, then they wouldn't be doing that way.
Adam Moore
The whole business model is copying something you already have and sending the copy to the client. It's kind of silly considering how easy it is to send a copy of a file to someone, yet you want to charge a lot of money for doing something so easy.