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#402Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unreal isn't open source
it may not be free software, but it is open source
No, not according to the Open Source Definition of the OSI, which is generally recognized to be the authority in terms of what we call "open source".
> No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.
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#403Earlier quoted context omitted.
You never did “own” it on a CD, or for that matter a on vinyl or cassette. You owned a license to privately listen to your copy of the music, that lasts as long as the medium is playable. Recording from the radio is technically unlawful, as is playing the music at large gatherings or broadcasting the music. Same goes for video cassettes, DVDs and other mediums. What you do own is a physical copy of the music/film. Yo…
> Recording from the radio is technically unlawful I thought this was settled the other way in https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Corp._of_America_v._Uni... .
My frame of reference there is the UK. Should've been more explicit stating that. Sorry :)
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#404Seriously. What's the point of open source if companies just steal it, build billion dollar industries on top, and then lock everything down? Apple is telling us we can't run our own software on their goddamned devices, yet they built their empire on open source. Look at Facebook, Google, Amazon. They've extracted all the blood they can and given us back scraps. AWS is repackaged software you pay more for. Yes, it's…
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#405Earlier quoted context omitted.
Playing a gig at a coffee shop for tips and not compromising on your vision seems like a solid choice to me.
Definitely, it would be nice. A key to this approach is being able to survive based on tips alone. It will make me really frustrated if I play for tips and then yell about how listeners should pay be $100k.
The difference here is that you have thousands of listeners, and some of them are recording your music to sample in their #1 album.
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#406Seriously. What's the point of open source if companies just steal it, build billion dollar industries on top, and then lock everything down? Apple is telling us we can't run our own software on their goddamned devices, yet they built their empire on open source. Look at Facebook, Google, Amazon. They've extracted all the blood they can and given us back scraps. AWS is repackaged software you pay more for. Yes, it's…
That is what happens when the hipster folks attack GPL and push for MIT like licenses. Had Linus not chosen it for Linux and I bet I would still be using a mix of Solaris, Aix and HP-UX on the server room. Dual licensing is the only true path, it was already so in the shareware days, and it will be back to be the daily reality. Bills have to paid.
Sadly, because adoption by large companies requires permissive licenses these days, or maybe just developers think so, everything is MIT license these days.
Sometimes I think adherence to the open source has pushed hobbyist community backwards. Source available for hobbyists and paid for commercial use is no worse than GPL (GPL gets violated as much).
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#407The solution needs to be cultural, not legal.
The culture change needs to come bottom up within the company.
Employees in those companies need to advocate for active contribution in open-source, not just in a parasitic form.
This can come in many forms, building groups/guilds to advocate open source, mentioning it in one-to-one, setting expectations around open-source in job interviews, and requesting time and money to contributing to open source.
People need to stand up and say "this is not okay", and stand up for what they believe in.
The only way things will change is if the cost of contributing to open source is lesser than the cost of losing talent because of it.
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#408Seriously. What's the point of open source if companies just steal it, build billion dollar industries on top, and then lock everything down? Apple is telling us we can't run our own software on their goddamned devices, yet they built their empire on open source. Look at Facebook, Google, Amazon. They've extracted all the blood they can and given us back scraps. AWS is repackaged software you pay more for. Yes, it's…
The internet is now positively a nasty place. Everyone is optimizing for "engagement" which essentially equates to "controversial content". You can't find any genuine advice because Google has been gamed to the point where top 50 pages for any query are affiliate pages. Forums and the communities they fostered are dead. Their replacement, Reddit, has a structure that favors the hive mind. There are ads everywhere and…
No, the mainstream internet is the nasty place.
The "old" Internet is still out there, at places like https://tilde.town.
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#409So you've made something cool and it's time to release it. These seem to be the options at hand: 1. Release under a permissive license (MIT, BSD) and: - Have everyone and their grandma use it. - Die poor 2. Release under a copyleft license (GPL) and: - No company is going to use or contribute to it, unless they can somehow clearly separate it from what they see as their intellectual property. Or just hide it where no…
Just because you made something cool doesn't mean you are entitled to make any amount of money from it. The world doesn't owe you anything. Even if you make something useful to people, that doesn't mean you are entitled to live rich. More than likely your solution is just good enough that people don't feel the need to make their own, but not good enough that no one can't compete with you.
Business are not entitled to using your software just because it's cool either. They shouldn't feel entitled to having changes made to the software either. If they'd rather save a buck by not having one of their employee working on the same product, they should feel entitled to become even richer either.
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#410Earlier quoted context omitted.
Definitely, it would be nice. A key to this approach is being able to survive based on tips alone. It will make me really frustrated if I play for tips and then yell about how listeners should pay be $100k.
The difference here is that you have thousands of listeners, and some of them are recording your music to sample in their #1 album.
Then it’s pretty easy to stop playing for tips or perhaps stop hanging out a sign that says “feel free to sample without paying me or even referencing me.”
If I’m playing for tips, have thousands of listeners, and making an amount of money that doesn’t make me happy then that’s a good sign to stop doing that because people don’t value my music as much as I do.
It’s really hard to understand what makes an album #1 as there’s so many factors. I think that’s why it’s so important to set up licenses beforehand. I don’t think it’s reasonable that I’m entitled to any percentage of a #1 album just because they sampled my CC-commercial licensed music.