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| Dec 22, 2021 at 20:30 | comment | added | Dmitry Grigoryev | @Vikki What exactly is "wastage of nonperishable goods"? And BTW, well-built software is only good while you have a computer to run it on, and without maintenance it will become poor or unusable software on the next generation of computers. Average houses last much longer than average software products. | |
| Dec 20, 2021 at 23:37 | comment | added | Vikki | @DmitryGrigoryev: It is not an argument against capitalism in general, merely against wastage of nonperishable goods. Houses burn down; food is eaten or rots; well-built software is good forever. | |
| Dec 20, 2021 at 20:03 | comment | added | Dmitry Grigoryev | @Vikki That is an argument against capitalism in general. It will become valid the moment someone invents a better economic system. For now, one is free to use the good long-lasting software from North Korea, provided they find some. | |
| Dec 19, 2021 at 22:21 | comment | added | Vikki | @DmitryGrigoryev: One could make a good argument that selling software for profit is inherently immoral, because it takes the focus away from making good, long-lasting software in favor of making profitable software that you have to buy again every year or two. | |
| Feb 10, 2017 at 13:21 | comment | added | speeder | I wasn't talking about USED vehicles, but new ones. Also, the only reason why I learned to code in first place is because I could use lots of cracked (not necessarily pirated) software. As for the studies, "what" got better when copyrights were more enforced? Wages? | |
| Feb 8, 2017 at 10:37 | comment | added | Dmitry Grigoryev | @speeder Your comment seems to advocate the use of cracked software because it makes technology affordable for poor people. This has been studied in length, and the results have always shown that IT specialists are practically doomed to poverty in countries which allow piracy, and things get better when copyright laws start to be enforced. And BTW, you can easily find a used car in EU or US with a MacBook Pro price tag. | |
| Apr 19, 2016 at 4:44 | comment | added | speeder | Where I live a legitimate Apple computer cost easily the same as a motorcycle, or even a car (for MacPro stuff). Also, OSX and iOS coding is the only source of income me, and many other programmers have right now (because no matter how much the economy is sinking, people wanting iOS code always show up willing to pay, even if a tiny amount, but tiny money is better than zero money). So how worth is it? To me is worth being able to afford food and medicine. | |
| Apr 22, 2014 at 7:05 | comment | added | Dio Phung | Any site that calls itself Superuser has to allow a degree of freedom for forward-thinking ==> true that. Else it should be call "normal-user" | |
| Aug 22, 2012 at 13:39 | comment | added | kluka | While I agree with your opinion; technically an EULA is a form of contract; which again are in principle protected by law | |
| Aug 22, 2012 at 9:53 | history | edited | Appreciative User | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 22, 2012 at 9:44 | history | answered | Appreciative User | CC BY-SA 3.0 |