• @commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    311 months ago

    The moral thing to do is to pay your share of that if you make a copy, even if the copy itself doesn’t cost anything.

    under what ethical system?

    • @shrugal@lemm.ee
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      11 months ago

      Mine, obviously. But feel free to correct me if you disagree with something.

      • @commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        111 months ago

        there’s no reason to believe what you claimed. a claim made without justification can be dismissed without justification.

        • @MJBrune@beehaw.org
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          211 months ago

          They made a justification. They showed you how people couldn’t make these things without people paying for them.

          • @commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            111 months 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.

            • @MJBrune@beehaw.org
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              111 months ago

              people make things all the time without being paid.

              Less people make things without being paid than those who make things to get paid. That is a common fact we can both agree on. If you need the number of open source games compared to the number of paid games then I recommend you grab those numbers yourself.

              • @commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                111 months ago

                this doesn’t prove anyone ever needs to be paid to make something. a single counter example disproves the claim.

                • @MJBrune@beehaw.org
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                  111 months ago

                  You are equating someone’s terrible hobby project to paid games like it’s 1 to 1. You are simply arguing in bad faith. Have a good day though, hopefully, one day we can converse properly.

              • @commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                111 months ago

                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?

              • @commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                111 months ago

                github shows a hundred thousand repositories for the query “hangman”. assuming 10% of them are false positives it’s still a great number.

        • @shrugal@lemm.ee
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          211 months ago

          What unjustified claim did I make that you disagree with? Seems all rather uncontroversial to me.

          • @commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            111 months ago

            The moral thing to do is to pay your share of that if you make a copy, even if the copy itself doesn’t cost anything.

            i don’t need to disagree to disbelieve. i do disagree, but without establishing your justification for this claim, it’s kind of hard to argue against it.

            • @shrugal@lemm.ee
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              211 months ago

              The justification was that creating things has a cost, even if a copy doesn’t, and that we should distribute that cost as fairly as possible among the people benefiting from the creation.