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Originally Posted by wgrimm
I don't understand why it matters if the developers are paid or not.
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If you re-read the thread you will see that the discussion was basically comparing books to software and that since "most" software is free then authors don't need to be paid for their work, or that it doesn't have value. So, my main points were...
1. "Most" software is NOT free.
2. Even if the software is free, the people that created it were still getting paid.
It think the above equates to ebooks and other stuff. For example, alot of articles written in newspapers are "free" but the authors are still getting paid, perhaps via adds, etc. I've not seen alot of ads in eBooks so I think the authors need to get paid by people paying for the eBooks that they enjoy.
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