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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Get off your high horse, I said no such thing. Geeze, for a forum about reading, there sure are a lot of people who have trouble doing it. If you vote with your dollars by not buying books from publishers, then why should they care what you think? You aren't a customer to them and quite likely will never be.
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I've heard some express such appreciation for Calibre that they send the developer money....even when they don't have to. It is far more likely the developer will keep improving Calibre if he keeps making money from it. It MAY be the case that he just likes to do the work and will continue anyway. It's MORE likely that -- if he made enough money -- he could give full time effort into making improvements, and doing so quicker.
You know...just like an author writing books.
Me....I'm a free rider...taking what he makes for free and what others support with their money. But I don't kid myself. I'm not supporting him just because I use his product. I'm no more value to him than those who don't use his product. Really, I'm morally worse.
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Originally Posted by pwalker8
When I buy a car, I look for the best car I can find at a certain price point. A car is something that gets me from point A to point B and as long as I have a car that can do that reliably and has the small number of features I care about, I don't care about the model. Nothing wrong with that, I'm just not a car person. I have zero loyalty to a specific car manufacturer.
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I've tried to help people reconsider books as SEPARATE from meaningless commodities like milk or cars. They are works of art, created by an artist. Thus, if I appreciate the art and would like MORE from the artist, I SHOULD (if I can) support the art with my money.
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Originally Posted by pwalker8
The flip side of that is that I don't expect high end car manufactures to play the slightest amount of attention to what I want and I don't go on and on about how over priced that cars are and how they are ripping off their customers just because I'm not willing to shell out the money to buy a high end car.
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In other words: you don't matter (to them) and you never did
