View Single Post
  #23 (permalink)  
Old 06-14-2007
CDavidNeely's Avatar
CDavidNeely CDavidNeely is offline
Secretary of Defense
Neo-Rationalist

 
Member Since: May 2004
Location: US North America Terra
Posts: 2,901

United    
Re: Cost of Software and Death of Innovation

Namaste,

Quote:
Originally Posted by timj219 View Post
How do you propose that authors and composers and movie directors and software developers should get paid?
What happened to creating great music because you enjoy creating great music? What happened to creating great art because you were an artist and wanted to make great art? What happened to being a craftsman because you wanted to create great works? It all comes down the fact that making money has become more important than the work itself. Is any software worth $1000.00 per copy when there are millions of copies being sold. The simple fact, as I see it, is the prices are artificially exagerated so people can make immense profits and keep others from creating something that might compete with the product.

In Peace,
Eglaelin
Reply With Quote