GPL Sued For "Software Price Fixing"
Without Gimp or Blender, how would most indie game devs make their art? Now they can do it, and they can even contribute to the program itself. GPL imo stimulates commercial developers to make their products even better (they can exist side by side).
Quote:Original post by MarminWithout Gimp or Blender, how would most indie game devs make their art?
with pirated software (just as they do now *runsandhides*)?
Quote:maximALThin ice, my friend.
pirated software
Quote:Without Gimp or Blender, how would most indie game devs make their art?I use The GIMP myself. It's not that free software dosn't have its benifits for some people.
Then again - I use a fair ammount of (legal!) commercial software too. Although I imagine that those companies would have a lot of trouble competing against price-fixed free software. It may be a good thing that the OSS community couldn't design an interface to save its collective life.
In a way, it moves the profitability (and thus, focus) away from mundane software, and over to more artistic and unique software (like games) that can't be GPL'ed as eaisly.
But then again, it is capable of trashing the markets in which it can become prevelent (basically all generic and semi-generic application and server markets). For various reasons as described, at length, in the above thread.
BTW - good work on resurecting the thread :\
A little offtopic, but we also just bought Photoshop (in fact, bought an upgrade from an older version).
So you see, the GPL is not the end of all comemrcial software, because usually the commercial software is better than the free software (with some exceptions).
So you see, the GPL is not the end of all comemrcial software, because usually the commercial software is better than the free software (with some exceptions).
Where are all the libraterians that shouted, "If you do a job like bang out generic code, your job deserves to be outsourced to India." or "It's your property, do what you want with it."
Sure, the few "Industry Standards" Like Word or WordPerfect(The medical field conciders WordPerfect a standard) that free newcomers can't even gain a significant foothold, like AbiWord or StarOffice. Heck, BeOS was a great little OS, freeware too, but it failed to sustain profitability.
The profit always lied in finding a new business need and exploiting it, like MSProject or Visio did, not in making clone #501.
Quote:That is the way the market works anyways. There isn't a real profitablility on new text editors, word processors, IRC Clients or even OSes.
In a way, it moves the profitability (and thus, focus) away from mundane software, and over to more artistic and unique software (like games) that can't be GPL'ed as eaisly.
Sure, the few "Industry Standards" Like Word or WordPerfect(The medical field conciders WordPerfect a standard) that free newcomers can't even gain a significant foothold, like AbiWord or StarOffice. Heck, BeOS was a great little OS, freeware too, but it failed to sustain profitability.
The profit always lied in finding a new business need and exploiting it, like MSProject or Visio did, not in making clone #501.
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