for20
01-06-2001, 03:07 AM
Why not? alot easier to enforce than the Big Brother crap they're proposing.
If software is good enough to significanty impact someone's life and it was available freely with all attributions credited, how could they not return the favor unless they were heartless?
Suppose a company is in dire straits for lack of good software and one day they download it for free and it works and soon the company is profitable again. Would a $10,000 donation even begin to pay back the favor?
Or would society simply let that talent languish or worse force it into indenturement to ugly minds?
If software is good enough to significanty impact someone's life and it was available freely with all attributions credited, how could they not return the favor unless they were heartless?
Suppose a company is in dire straits for lack of good software and one day they download it for free and it works and soon the company is profitable again. Would a $10,000 donation even begin to pay back the favor?
Or would society simply let that talent languish or worse force it into indenturement to ugly minds?