Piracy, in today’s context of unauthorized sharing of digital content, is wrongly condemned as immoral theft. However, it is not piracy itself that is immoral. Rather, it is the greed-driven laws and practices that censor knowledge and creative works to maximize profits. At its core, piracy is about sharing information and creative works with others, which should be seen as a moral good. 🤑

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[–] platypus_plumba@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

First, times change old man. Software now requires maintenance and requirements change.

Second, I was talking about your ideal scenario in which software can be given away without cracking it or without piracy being illegal. In that scenario, software would use the cloud services because, why not? They are already giving away all the effort of the programmers.

Third, holy shit, I can't believe a programmer is PRO software piracy. Do you even understand how your industry works? Do you realize software needs to be sold to generate a revenue? This ain't charity.

[–] hyde@lazybear.social 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

@platypus_plumba @ayaya FOSS is free ... But people create services around it to get revenue. But, the software is free.

Tthose big companies are making money using free software without giving anything back ... And that's disgusting. Check the latest Redhat move ...

[–] platypus_plumba@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Redhat not giving back?

Do you think Redhat hasn't contributed to Linux?

I swear, I'm about to punch a wall reading these replies. Holy shit.

[–] hyde@lazybear.social 3 points 2 years ago

@platypus_plumba They did of course ... before IBM bought it.

And, now they stabbing in the back "freeloaders" ...

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