Gaywallet (they/it) ( Gaywallet@beehaw.org ) A to Technology · 3 years agoPluralistic: “If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing”pluralistic.netexternal-linkmessage-square206linkfedilinkarrow-up1361cross-posted to: piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.comtechnology@lemmy.mlhackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fanshackernews@derp.foo
arrow-up1361external-linkPluralistic: “If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing”pluralistic.netGaywallet (they/it) ( Gaywallet@beehaw.org ) A to Technology · 3 years agomessage-square206linkfedilinkcross-posted to: piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.comtechnology@lemmy.mlhackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fanshackernews@derp.foo
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minus-squarecommie ( commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 years ago They showed you how people couldn’t make these things without people paying for them. but that’s not true. people make things all the time without being paid.
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minus-squarecommie ( commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 years ago“snake game” returns over one hundred twenty thousand results on github.
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minus-squarecommie ( commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 years agoyou’re moving the goalposts.
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minus-squarecommie ( commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 years agoyou never mentioned ‘quality’ until you wanted to disqualify data that didn’t support your position.
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minus-squarecommie ( commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 years agogithub shows a hundred thousand repositories for the query “hangman”. assuming 10% of them are false positives it’s still a great number.
minus-squarecommie ( commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 years agothere are over one hundred fifty thousand results on github for “tictactoe”. just how many paid games do you think there are, by the way?
minus-squarecommie ( commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 years agothis doesn’t prove anyone ever needs to be paid to make something. a single counter example disproves the claim.
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but that’s not true. people make things all the time without being paid.
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“snake game” returns over one hundred twenty thousand results on github.
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you’re moving the goalposts.
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you never mentioned ‘quality’ until you wanted to disqualify data that didn’t support your position.
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github shows a hundred thousand repositories for the query “hangman”. assuming 10% of them are false positives it’s still a great number.
there are over one hundred fifty thousand results on github for “tictactoe”.
just how many paid games do you think there are, by the way?
this doesn’t prove anyone ever needs to be paid to make something. a single counter example disproves the claim.