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   On Sat, 31 Jan 2026 10:38:35 -0800, dart200   
    wrote:   
      
   >On 1/31/26 7:12 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:   
   >> On Fri, 30 Jan 2026 22:12:41 -0800, dart200   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On 1/30/26 6:35 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:   
   >>>> On Fri, 30 Jan 2026 16:02:00 -0800, dart200   
   >>>>  wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> On 1/30/26 2:10 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:   
   >>>>>> On Fri, 30 Jan 2026 13:46:19 -0800, dart200   
   >>>>>>  wrote:   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> On 1/30/26 7:27 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:   
   >>>>>>>> On Fri, 30 Jan 2026 02:11:00 -0800, dart200   
   >>>>>>>>  wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>> we finally invented a type of good that has a zero-cost to copy, and   
   we   
   >>>>>>>>> still can't seem to figure out how to build a production system where   
   >>>>>>>>> all the products are freely distributed, cause we're so concerned   
   about   
   >>>>>>>>> getting payment upfront   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> So there you have it.  This is why commercialism always fails.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> bruh i'm talking about digital goods that are zero-cost to copy   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> But not zero cost to produce.  As a programmer myself, I have always   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> i feel u just entire missed the point of why i started this thread   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> pushed back against the idea that programmers don't need to get paid.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> only by donation if people feel it's warranted   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Remember shareware?  A hodge podge of unfinished somethings, thrown   
   >>>   
   >>> remember linux??? oh wait, that runs like most of the internet by now,   
   >>> it's impossible to forget   
   >>>   
   >>> also like *all* programming infrastructure anyone uses to build anything   
   >>>   
   >>>> out there to see if there might be any interest.   
   >>>> 1)  No great rush of interest, so I won't waste my time finishing it   
   >>>> 2)  It is unfinished, so why would I be interested in it?   
   >>>   
   >>> look bro, i'm suggesting we *ban* the sale of close sourced software,   
   >>> and remove copyrights for it   
   >>>   
   >>> this isn't a competition between paradigms, this is changing the   
   >>> paradigm such that we develop the will to support it   
   >>>   
   >>> will some software then not get developed??? sure, but we're drowning in   
   >>> *way* to much software so that's a good thing. more is not better, even   
   >>> if most economists are moronically allergic to the notion that making   
   >>> money =/= societal benefit   
   >>   
   >> So you want to trash an entire industry and a scholastic discipline.   
   >   
   >mostly yup. the industry is garbage and doesn't serve it's purpose in a   
   >remotely reasonable way, to point it threatens our viability cause we   
   >don't have the system we need   
   >   
   >> Are you expecting much pushback on that idea?   
   >   
   >ofc   
   >   
   >>   
   >> I say, for the most part, shareware has been a failed idea.  And   
   >   
   >no it isn't, the entire tech industry runs on open source software   
      
   The bad news is that most of us are non-techie dontnomuch types.   
      
   >> linux, to be marginally comprehensible to the average dontnomuch,   
   >> needed Red Hat to come along and commercialize it.  The last time I   
   >> tried linux, it was a bitch trying to get drivers for the moderately   
   >   
   >the linux kernel powers most phones that exist   
      
   Except maybe android.  Regardless, the vast majority of us do not   
   interact with kernels.  If it were necessary for ordinaryjoes to do   
   that, there would be far fewer phones and pads and computers sold.   
      
   The thing that windows and apple os  have done for us is to make   
   computers accessible to common folks.   
      
   Apple users were saying that when macs had a graphic interface and ibm   
   computers were still diddling with the dos text interface.  But ms did   
   get the message soon enough.   
      
   >> high end amd radeon graphic card that I tend to run some years behind   
   >> the market.   
   >>   
   >> Like I tell wilson, sure the system we have is rotten.  And it is in   
   >> dire need of improvement, but simply throwing away decades of social   
   >> evolution and returning to some old failed previous idea is not going   
   >> to make things better.   
   >>   
   >> Why do we have the systems we have, what problems were they meant to   
   >   
   >because we allow people to run wild with close source software and   
   >consumers don't have the time to generally be well informed enough to   
   >select for property a paradigms because everyone's so information   
   >overloaded in the first place.   
      
   Don't have the innate ability to struggle with what it takes to talk   
   to a machine in a foreign language (computer language).   
      
   But let's don't be so arrogant.  The consumer/democracy/labor social   
   structure we find ourselves enmeshed in is far more complex than only   
   the tech industry.   
      
   >> solve, and how can we actually try again and do better this time?  A   
   >> little bit better, As we continually go three steps forward and two   
   >> back.  Let's not make it an entire hike down the mountain back.   
   >>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> u can choose to not code, that's fine ... 99.99% of the industry is bull   
   >>>>> jobs so the less coders the better   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Damned right we do, exactly like you.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> And yizzit that bridge builders aren't constantly coming out with   
   >>>>>> bridge v2, v3...   
   >>>>>> Because once an enterprise has produced the final perfect software,   
   >>>>>> they have put themselves out of business.  But not bridge builders.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> which is why we shouldn't have traditional business building and   
   >>>>> maintaining our software. they need to keep producing software   
   >>>>> regardless of whether it makes sense or not, and unfortunately software   
   >>>>> can be made arbitrarily complicated (introducing further problems of   
   >>>>> integrations and inter-dependencies ... which people can get paid to   
   >>>>> "sovled"), so ofc business will because it will get them paid more.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> monetary based economics is broken by modern digital goods, and   
   >>>>> especially software, not that it was every particularly great in the   
   >>>>> first place.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Essentially, the cost to produce and distribute is not the real issue.   
   >>>>>> The issue is that everybody must continue paying everybody for   
   >>>>>> everything.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Why are we trapped in this endless cycle of sending money back and   
   >>>>>> forth to each other?  Couldn't there be a better basis for society and   
   >>>>>> social order?  Maybe, perhaps?  Wynot, woncha, wydoncha?   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> real goods aren't the same,   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> tho i might suggest we break out design vs production costs requiring   
   >>>>>>> that the consumer pay production price upfront ... while the design   
   >>>>>>> portion can be paid back as the consumer feels warranted   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> this is moving more towards a gifting economy while dealing with the   
      
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