[Slight OT] TDPL in Russia

[Walter Bright]

Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> I was just employing irony and sarcasm to demonstrate why your arguments 
> were meaningless :)  The only measurable factor for "good" art is how 
> many people use it/buy it.  For-sale software, books, movies do rather 
> well, so I'm inclined to believe they are pretty good.  There are also 
> some open source/free materials that do rather well, but they are not 
> nearly as common as free materials that are crappy.  My point was that 
> for-sale art by far outperforms freely available art in popularity and 
> usage.  When you get paid to make something, you can do it more often, 
> you get better at it, and your quality of work goes up.

Someone once told me that "capitalism doesn't support the arts". I asked him how 
the Beatles got rich. Oops!

There's a subgroup of the theater crowd around here who regard producers as 
"sellouts" if their plays actually attract an audience.