Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Copyright opinions

[roy.evison]

---- Simon Ward <address@hidden> wrote: 
> On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 06:04:53AM +0000, address@hidden wrote:
> > I would tend to agree but what two parties set up is between them
> > unless published under particular auspices. Yes software will have a
> > useful, or sellable, life-span but setting parameters may not be
> > useful.If you are a free-lance developer how do you guarantee your
> > income?
> Dear if you care to listen,
                             copyright, and that is eventually what is being 
talked about, not isolated areas like software, is governed by law and 
validated by the  country it is registered in. Individuals want paying for what 
they do and if that involves repeat payments then o.k. but that is different to 
organisations exercising thier collective muscles.

Roy.   
> This question always comes up, and the answer is to do what you do best
> and sell that: Develop, and charge people for your development effort.
> 
> Stallman’s opinion appears to be a very staunch find another way to make
> money that doesn’t involve subjugating users, but I find that when you
> put it that way developers may become upset and defensive, and not very
> willing to listen to reason.  I’m not primarily a developer, but I feel
> some of that too.
> 
> If you are a developer, base your pricing on actually developing the
> software, not on developing something once and expecting to sell it lots
> of times to make your money back, which usually involves restricting
> users’ freedoms in order to prevent them from using or modifying the
> software they have and possibly locking them in so that developers can
> monopolize further development of it.
> 
> Other ways are to offer services around your software.  Support it,
> maintain it, and charge for these efforts.  Sell printed manuals, or
> even traditional boxed copies (but when you do that, charge for the
> production, with a little profit, not the development - there was
> little, if any, development effort into the reproduction).
> 
> Simon
> -- 
> A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a
> simple system that works.—John Gall