Thread: What is "piracy" and is it ever justified
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2011-02-18 , 15:04
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Originally Posted by IsaacDFP View Post
Yes I do and I completly support it. Why do we need 100 different media players? Why do we need dozens of different web browsers? Why do we need a never-ending continuation of The Sims games?
So Picasso\Da Vinci\Raphael\etc should only make one masterpiece each? Are you even familiar with the creative process? How living things grow their cognitive functions (and creativity) by iterative process?

Isn't part of FOSS own tenet, its creation, came about from wanting to have CHOICE? Wouldn't your rationalization SEVERELY LIMITS the options in the so called market?

Imagine Nokia/Intel/Microsoft/Apple/Google were ALL working TOGETHER to create 1 brand of phone (with different characteristics like keyboard, nokeyboard, flip, slider, with essential the same common basics) with 1 OS using the best of each other's ressources and technology...don't you think they would the best the world has ever seen?
The world doesn't work and get controlled by a single committee. Design by committee largely doesn't work, unless everyone is under a single dictatorship.

You also base (and limit) your thinking just by a few basic ideas which work out on paper (if everyone works on a single thing, that thing will get done faster) but fail to take into account soooooooooo many other things.

see also: brook's law
see also: free market
see also: competition is good
see also: point #1 of my post above

ps: under your worldview, there would be no Nokia\Google\Apple\etc; because they get no incentive to invent, innovate and create new things.
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