[CS-FSLUG] Proprietary Software: Capitalism or Greed?

[Jukka]

2006/3/31, Don Parris <gnumathetes at gmail.com>:
[snip]
> Actually, that is only partially correct.  While I do not hold them up
> as a model, the Grateful Dead have enjoyed much, if not most, of their
> success because of their liberal music-sharing policy.  While they may
> be within their freedom/rights as authors to establish such a policy,
> they seem to understand the concept of the goose that lays the golden
> eggs.  So do their fans.  Software is more durable than music, of
> course, in that one is not likely to collect software as if it were
> music.  But the principle is nevertheless at work here.

Musicians should make their profits from live-performances (as well as
IT-professionals from support or special "inhouse" applications) and
use recorded music only as advertising...:)

Jukka