[Slight OT] TDPL in Russia

[BCS]

Hello Walter,

> 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.
> 

OTOH try and write a play that no one will watch. I'd be very surprised if 
it can be done.


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