unixguru88
Right off the assembly line
Digital computers are everywhere now and most of the worlds revenue is through digital trade. I mean 0's and 1's have the highest value in the world now and that is precisely my problem. Most of us would love to have the latest radeon 4850x2 but only a small fraction of us will be willing to steal it from a store. What if the store was completely unguarded and left open? I guess a lot of cards will dissappear but still, for most of us, the very thought of stealing will not occur. Why? It is because the card is a physical entity. An object which can be perceived by the senses and felt(especially in crysis). But the very same people who would shudder at the idea of stealing AMD's master-piece will have no hesitation in ripping the complete collections of Eminem or Shyamalan. Some people pirate stuff worth more than their yearly income(think autodesk). It's not because people are immoral, it's just because people belive Eminem does not lose a dime if you listen to his rhymes(I am getting really good!). In a way they are right. What the hell is autodesk going to lose if I use the 30 day trial 30 times(Surely by that time they will release a new version and a new trial). That is hitting the nail, nothing. The cost of manfucturing a radeon 4850x2 will be atleast 100$(understatement, I just want a lower bound). Whereas the cost of making one more copy of the full collection of autodesk software products will also be $100(A 500 GB hard drive). Whereas if you were to buy all those products, I guess you will have to pay your life time income. That is the paradox here software companies do not charge software based on the manufacturing fee(I hope AMD does) because there is no manufacturing cost other than hardware and the programmers pay. So there is no way to estimate software price. And most software products are extremely specialised and sales figure is going to be very less compared to a graphics card and hence they are forced to charge a lot. But the prices become very unreasonable and some companie makes an unbelivable amount of money(M$) and I guess in this case the company really does not lose anything at all. All those figures about losses amounting to billions of dollars are meaningless when those capitalist pigs do not know what to do with the millons(billions!?) they already have. I guess if products are reasonably priced then people will stop piracy automatically on their own. Have only one version of windows for thousand rupees with free upgrade to the next version under an open source license should be just fine. But if distributed under GPL software companies cannot make much money as people will generally get the software legally from third parties and also there is the danger of a new company forking the software and making minor cosmetic changes and stealing the crowd. To prevent all this I am framing a new license which will make it easy to sell commercial open source software. I need the help of all you guys in this endeavour.
