[OT] Good or best Linux distro?

[Chris]

On Tuesday, 28 January 2014 at 15:11:17 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Tuesday, 28 January 2014 at 14:06:08 UTC, Chris wrote:
>> Legitimacy of copyright is a tough one. Software development 
>> and the internet have added a new angle to it. However, where 
>> do you draw the line? The fact that something can be easily 
>> copied / distributed (internet) does not mean that the concept 
>> of copyright is obsolete (cf. the Pirate Party).
>
> For me it is convincing enough, despite working in industry 
> which has traditionally relied on that (good to see it is 
> moving from there). Concept of authorship is important, concept 
> of copyright is fallacy.
>

How so? Imagine you write a song and someone else has a hit with 
it. Why shouldn't you get a piece of the cake? Also, imagine 
someone uses something you have the copyright on for things you 
don't agree with (Nazis, the KKK whoever), isn't good that you 
can stop them from using your work to promote their cause?

>> Why should a composer, band or author not have the copyright 
>> on his/her own work and not see any money for it?
>
> Why can't they do it without relying on copyright? ;)

How would that work?

> Software industry has moved quite a lot in direction of SaaS 
> models, for example, when encountered similar problem. 
> Kickstarter has shown that you can find different ways of 
> funding creativity. It may destroy few industries in process 
> but I have zero respect to habits or tradition.

Neither do I.

>> In software it's a bit different. Where does "innovation" or 
>> "own work" start? Companies have sued each other for trivial 
>> things that anybody would come up with intuitively. However, I 
>> don't think that you can easily compare the world of software 
>> development with other areas.
>
> You can't, of course, but other areas are not as naturaly 
> fast-evolving as IT stuff is so it is always interesting to 
> model former with the latter in attempt to guess any possible 
> future impact.

Beware of borrowing from IT! All that bullsh*t companies, PR 
agents and the like come up with (from "copy and paste" to 
"gamification").

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamification)

> See how GPL vs BSD comes to dispute over fundamental beliefs? :P