The problem is one of fairness, not the amount - if you think $3.99 is fair for Yahma to charge for his efforts, why do you think it's fair that the original DOSBox developers, who contributed probably by far more work, get absolutely nothing? They must work for free, someone else earns an income off their work?

Apart from the legal system, I wonder if the original copyright holders (e.g. DOSBox developers) could have the app blocked/removed from the app store, given the app clearly violates someone else's copyright terms? Surely they have some mechanisms for reporting copyright-infringing content?

He didn't say it's too much, he said it appears to be a violation of the GPL. This is more like someone selling stolen goods on the street corner ... if I complain someone is selling stolen goods, you're going to bitch at me that I'm being a cheapskate?

"Nowhere does it ever say that if you that you are entitled to the source without the binary"

Actually it does, in plain English. See Todd's response.

Hilarious ... that's like saying, if I steal a car, and then spend weeks servicing it, tuning the engine, doing minor repairs, and giving it a new paintjob, then I damn well deserve to be allowed to sell it.

I get your point, and you are wrong

No he's not wrong. 21% of the Israeli population are Arabs. Are you saying you have proof it was only Jewish people involved in the theft?

stealing it and handing it out to the underclass

Pitting members of the proletariat against one another is a technique known as 'divide and rule', or in this case, 'divide and rule by thieving kleptocrats' .. the basic idea is that if you, say, have two neighbors and you can keep them bickering against one and blaming one another for everything that goes wrong, they won't notice while you rob both their houses (and will blame one another). Well done for playing your part like a good little pawn *pats head*.

The more phony divisions you sew, the better - e.g. pit old vs young (e.g. tell the older generation they're poor because the younger generation is eating Social Security and tell the younger generation they're poor because the older generation are living high off the hog off their labor ... meanwhile both feel poor because you are robbing them both blind, but they will instead bicker and blame one another ... it helps if you can deliberately construct a convoluted robbery system in which there's just enough of a grain of truth both ways for it to seem plausible, e.g. pyramid-scheme-based retirement funds or government debt).

The only "divide" in the country should be that between the moral and the immoral, between thieves and honest folk.

I glossed through Jono's response and it looks like a bunch of standard manipulative corporate PR-speak, he waffles a lot of marketing-speak like "the goal of the dash in Ubuntu has always been to provide a central place in which you can search and find things that are interesting and relavent to you; it is designed to be at the center of your computing experience blah blah blah" and makes vague insinuations about the 'accuracy' of RMS's statements, calling it FUD and using ad hominem attacks like "childish" --- but nowhere does he actually bother to deny the core claim - that personal local searches are sent to the servers online. In fact, he appears to be defending the idea of doing so, claiming that not liking this is merely a subjectively "different" "privacy" preference of individuals.

The problem is that the average man on the street lacks morality. I mean here in the US we just voted in the same president again that signed in Indefinite Detention - how is that better than this? - and we still continue to believe in (and vote for) violently arresting and locking up innocent people for victimless crimes like smoking a little weed, or prostitution, or violating their natural rights based on their sexual preference ... it's easy to point fingers at "the media" but really the core of problem is ordinary folk like those around us with immoral beliefs, we're the same immoral people who go work in 'big media'. It's not just "the powers that be" that are corrupt - we're all corrupt - we all have 'fake morality'.

It's different in one key way: Human labor is going to be completely and entirely obsoleted by machines (with the exception of, yeah, yeah, things like prostitutes) - i.e. for the first time in the history of human economies, machines will be better (i.e. more efficient) than humans for nearly any task a human could potentially do. Broadly, there ultimately won't be a "more useful job" that couldn't be done more efficiently by yet another smart robot (or rather, the percentage of jobs humans are better at will become very small, eventually reduced only to jobs that we prefer done by humans only because of irrational facets of being human ... e.g. prostitution or waiting tables).

Not just safety, it will probably be prudent for security reasons ... unmanned vehicle driving with valuable goods = ripe for thieves.

FACT: Free time is a GOOD thing

Hrm, try tell that to the unemployed.

There is no need for socialism.

The problem is that "everyone could own a robot" doesn't necessarily solve problems at an individual level ... e.g. the average person needs to eat and your personal robot isn't likely going to be the one growing your food, your food will be produced by an army of agricultural robots producing food somewhere else on an industrial scale. Your personal robot might theoretically be able to put furniture together or do construction in your yard or put together an iPhone but won't be producing or mining the raw materials ... you'll need robot miners to mine raw materials, process them, transport them etc.

There is no such thing as peaceful taxation

That is true, but we may have a difficult problem to solve here.

Uhrm, automation is going to replace jobs in all fields (just differently, in different fields). E.g. picture self-driving cars. Sorting packages. Packing shelves. Flipping burgers. Construction industry - e.g. automated building techniques. Look at every job around you, and ask, would a robot be able to do that in 15 years time. Then look ahead 30 years. This is going to be the biggest disruption to social economic structures since the Industrial Revolution. We're in uncharted territory, we don't know how this is going to play out ... there are significant parallels with the Industrial Revolution but there are also crucial differences.

I've already met hardware vendors that push Microsoft software making openly false claims to customers that open source 'spies on you' .. this sort of thing is going to make it just another bit harder to counter misinformation like that.