Comment Re:Define "affordable" (Score 1) 549
Somehow I expected you to say that "affordable" was "less than an HD TV".
Comment Re:Answer for every DRM question given (Score 1) 439
> And why not? If you want people to do work for free, move to Russia and time travel about half a century back.
Just for the record, I have several former-Soviet-citizen-friends, and they report that they did, indeed, get paid. Ironically, the engineers got paid less than the brick-layers. But they still got paid.
Another way to look at it, though, would be that many got paid for doing no work. It's the quality of work that goes away when there's no incentive.
What's the exception? The enthusiast. In this environment (Slashdot), we are afflicted by a tremendous bias. Because *we* are hobbyists who "would do it anyway", "even if we didn't get paid", we feel that the Open Source movement has a chance. And it does, because it's an industry that can be driven by the few who "would do it anyway".
Bad model for the whole society though. We are *not* representative.
-Ant Slayer-
Just for the record, I have several former-Soviet-citizen-friends, and they report that they did, indeed, get paid. Ironically, the engineers got paid less than the brick-layers. But they still got paid.
Another way to look at it, though, would be that many got paid for doing no work. It's the quality of work that goes away when there's no incentive.
What's the exception? The enthusiast. In this environment (Slashdot), we are afflicted by a tremendous bias. Because *we* are hobbyists who "would do it anyway", "even if we didn't get paid", we feel that the Open Source movement has a chance. And it does, because it's an industry that can be driven by the few who "would do it anyway".
Bad model for the whole society though. We are *not* representative.
-Ant Slayer-
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