If you want it to be up to the free market you have to have a pricing structure that allows the market to consume the work. This most certainly is not one that pays the creator only once.

IE6 came out almost 10 years ago. It sucks at css, but with workarounds does an ok job at javascript. If I lose .1% of my users because there browser is older than IE6 I am not too concerned.

Hate to reply to AC, except in this case I should point out AC is me.

99% of the web COULD work without javascript while just having everything run on the server, but I happen to like web pages that benefit from XHR's. You keep your noscript plugin, and I'll keep intuitive webUI.

Who the hell is going to pay them only once? The first reader of the publication? The publisher? There is nobody to pay an artist only once because nobody except a publisher can afford $500,000 for a book that took 10 years to write. Who will then profit for years of sales while the artist gets only a TINY percentage of the actual value of the work they produced. Do you happen to work for a publishing company? This is by far the stupidest thing I have read on slashdot in a while.

What?! This beta software doesn't work properly?! UNPOSSIBLE!

I don't even know why I buy new pc games any more (but I still do) because I always go back to this game. Great multiplayer, and even greater multiplayer custom maps www.getdota.com

Steam works a lot better now, you should give it a second chance. I have never had a problem with it (including half life 2 *shrug*) and offline mode works just fine.

A game should just be fun, who cares about unique? If a game is fun, it's worth playing unique or not.

When users don't know what a term means they can find out and create a link in the wiki to the explanation page. It works where I work (when people remember to use it)

I ran the google v8 test 3 times and took the high on my Ubuntu machine, the results: Firefox linux: 68 Firefox wine: 104

Software pirates are assholes.