Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lynn McGuire Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: "US judge: end software patents, copyright is sufficient" Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2016 15:07:19 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 47 Message-ID: References: <6cf0129c-259f-45bc-bdbf-f017f25194d6@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2016 20:07:08 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="fb682537fa62155eccd580463739276c"; logging-data="29455"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19E7TF+q4kgKZ3PrRXclsWB" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 In-Reply-To: <6cf0129c-259f-45bc-bdbf-f017f25194d6@googlegroups.com> Cancel-Lock: sha1:gVnlm/UmD8/bm1yhuQmB4m0deZc= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c++:45410 On 10/8/2016 5:50 PM, Rick C. Hodgin wrote: > Lynn McGuire wrote: >> Are you saying that software companies should not be able >> to sell their software ? > > The Bible teaches us that we are to be paid for labor, for a service we > provide. A software app takes time to develop. Recovering that > investment is appropriate, in that it cost $10K in labor to create, > and you expect to have 10K people use it, sell it for $1 per copy, > and once you've recovered your investment, switch to a donation- > only model. > > Software (and digital media in general) is also different than other > things. A person can spend a year accomplishing development > on some product, to then achieve the final form. They then, becauss > of the properties of digital media, give copies to every person with a > computer on the entire planet, and still have theirs too. This is > not true with chairs, or plates, or ties, or dog collars. It automatically > places software / digital media into another realm which must be > recognized for what it is, a preview of Heaven: > > (1) Use without consumption (Moses, burning bush was not > consumed). > (2) A pattern and prompting of how to be: creating, having, > and sharing / giving. > (3) Does not degrade. Only the media it's on degrades. A > software program written in 1960 would still run the > same today on equal hardware. No rusting, no aging, > but rather it is how things will be in Heaven. > > The enemy of this world twists God's gift in this area to try to be like > worldly things, when it shares none of the fundamental attributes > with them save one: our involvement in creating new things. > > Best regards, > Rick C. Hodgin Wow, that is a twisted reality. You are falsely teaching that profit is bad. I feed my family and my nine employees families with our software sales of over a million dollars per year. We do not do this for free. And my investors demand a profit. Lynn