[Slight OT] TDPL in Russia

[retard]

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:40:56 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:

> retard wrote:
>> That's hardly the case. One reason why open sourced books are so rare
>> is that the capitalistic finance system competes with voluntary work.
>> For example, when Andrei writes a book about D, he probably wants money
>> (because life isn't free), money (because he wants to be richer than
>> some low class douchebag trolling in the newsgroups), he wants fame
>> (talks, job offers, other contacts), he wants to contribute to the
>> development of D. If the money was provided by other means, there
>> wouldn't be a need for profits from the book anymore, thus piracy would
>> be acceptable.
> 
> I've never heard of anyone dissuaded from writing a free book because
> capitalist Andrei wrote one.

Having a decent commercial book discourages projects like http://
en.wikibooks.org/wiki/A_Beginner's_Guide_to_D---on the other hand, these 
projects also require motivated authors. There are also examples of free, 
good quality texts by motivated authors (e.g. many blog posts these days 
are CC licensed). The commercial bookstores / newspapers often don't have 
good alternatives to up-to-date blog articles..

>> If you have high moral and you know that you can only write one good
>> book during your lifetime, you should stop writing crappy books after
>> The book and collecting money with your previous fame. Here, capitalism
>> might encourage you to waste the rest of your time hurting the society.
>> Capitalism isn't equal to justice in all cases.
> 
> I'm sorry, this just makes no sense to me. People change professions all
> the time under capitalism. Novelists aren't locked in to writing novels.
> They can switch to carpentry any time <g>.~

'Pays well', 'is enjoyable', 'has a justified reason' are totally 
different points of view. Sometimes/often a work can't satisfy each one 
of those.