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2 months ago

in Hacker News Disease on mattmaroon.com
No, the point is that IP law is continuously abused. Of course any reasonable man would want to allow someone to benefit from his creations.

But this article defends the actions of the music industry (which are not reasonable) by implying that music execs are merely alpha males with mansions and yachts and that they are so smart and merely doing a "no-brainer" and that all of us would also do it., if we were sufficiently smart enough.

I beg to differ...

The writers, programmers and the like that you mention, don't go about suing people left right and center, lobbying for even longer copyright and generally try to inhibit the flow of information and the development of new ideas, paradigms and technologies, all the while watering down their product to appeal to the basest desires of human beings in a cynical attempt to increase sales as opposed to actually making a lasting contribution to society.

2 months ago

in Hacker News Disease on mattmaroon.com
I never comment on HN and don't care about HN karma.

I would rather share tools and knowledge than money....Teach a man to fish, so to speak. Hence my reference to openness.

Of course I am only a small cog in the giant machine. I just wish more people would wake up from their consumerism slumber and stop feeling sorry (or try to emulate) for rich bankers and music execs.

Artists routinely gets screwed over by the big music labels. I just don't buy the line that the aggressive behaviour of the labels is realy for the "artists" best interests.

I rather support emusic.com, where I know the artists are better compensated.

2 months ago

in Hacker News Disease on mattmaroon.com
I'm an open source software developer and an IT guy, and I never thought that music industry or newspaper (or whatever) execs were stupid. That's not the point... I think you yourself don't get it either.

Am I supposed to be impressed by a 20 million dollar mansion and a yacht? Every day thousands of people die of hunger and I must give a damn about some greedy exec and his "intelligence"? What about morality, decency or humanity?

I write open source code and release everything under the GPL because I would like to contribute to society, even if it's only in a small way. Open source, sharing, open society, open governance and freedom of information is the future, and it cannot come soon enough. It's morally indefensible that people are so fixated on materialism while billions are living in abject poverty and starving.
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JC If you would license your code and sell it for a profit, you could take the money and then donate it to the people who are dying daily.

I don't think a starving man gives a damn about what your karma is on HN.
Ben While working on open source software and making an effort to contribute to society are certainly both admirable endeavors, I think that you are missing the point of IP Law. IP Law, when not abused, is simply intended to allow people to profit from their own ideas in a market that does not deal in material goods and is as such significantly more difficult to regulate. For the majority of the people who use IP Law in their careers (professional photographers, Writers, Free Lance Programmers, etc.) it is not a means to becoming filthy rich, but a means to making any money at all.
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10 months ago

in Bend over for the mobile networks on Paul Jacobson
Bullshit.

You can go to www.vodacom4me.co.za click on "My Account" and then "Account info", and then you will see your remaining download bundle.
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