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From: | Paul Rankin |
Subject: | Re: pirate bay, w3m, and the interface is just an interface (BEST post ever) |
Date: | Sun, 14 Dec 2014 19:43:17 +1000 |
Rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> at 19:02 on 14 Dec 2014: > Consider > 1. The market capitalization of google/amazon etc > 2. How much that depends on the contributions of GNU/Linux etc > 3. Are the reimbursements reasonable (leave aside remotely fair)? > > JFTR I am not blaming the money-spinning corps. > Its just that we do not know yet how to make sense of 'ownership' > in a world where suddenly the links between work (aka sweat/blood) > and physical objects is no longer what it used to be. This is a very good point. Especially in the 21st century, it's insulting and just plain dumb for someone to tell another human being that their work has no value because it did not produce a scarce physical object.
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