The moral thing to do is to pay your share of that if you make a copy, even if the copy itself doesn’t cost anything.

under what ethical system?

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Mine, obviously. But feel free to correct me if you disagree with something.

there’s no reason to believe what you claimed. a claim made without justification can be dismissed without justification.

What unjustified claim did I make that you disagree with? Seems all rather uncontroversial to me.

The moral thing to do is to pay your share of that if you make a copy, even if the copy itself doesn’t cost anything.

i don’t need to disagree to disbelieve. i do disagree, but without establishing your justification for this claim, it’s kind of hard to argue against it.

The justification was that creating things has a cost, even if a copy doesn’t, and that we should distribute that cost as fairly as possible among the people benefiting from the creation.

that’s doesn’t follow

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Idk what to tell you but: Yes it does. We can’t really argue if you refuse to elaborate your point.

when you drive over a bridge, do you tip the engineering form? the contractors? they’re the ones who created this experience for you.

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They made a justification. They showed you how people couldn’t make these things without people paying for them.

They showed you how people couldn’t make these things without people paying for them.

but that’s not true. people make things all the time without being paid.

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people make things all the time without being paid.

Less people make things without being paid than those who make things to get paid. That is a common fact we can both agree on. If you need the number of open source games compared to the number of paid games then I recommend you grab those numbers yourself.

this doesn’t prove anyone ever needs to be paid to make something. a single counter example disproves the claim.

“snake game” returns over one hundred twenty thousand results on github.

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You are equating someone’s terrible hobby project to paid games like it’s 1 to 1. You are simply arguing in bad faith. Have a good day though, hopefully, one day we can converse properly.

you’re moving the goalposts.

github shows a hundred thousand repositories for the query “hangman”. assuming 10% of them are false positives it’s still a great number.

there are over one hundred fifty thousand results on github for “tictactoe”.

just how many paid games do you think there are, by the way?

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