What morality is that? There is nothing inherently evil about charging for software. If it so immoral to charge for your time and energy why do you charge your boss to pay your wages? I am sure you make money somehow. Why not work for them for free? Or did you get your computer for free, your car or other mode of transportation for free, your house or other living area for free, food on the table, clothes on your back, etc etc. Ive only met one person in my life that actually had no need to be paid for his time or energy. He was my room mate in college and had a 10 million dollar trust fund in his name as a gift from his father. As far as he was concerned everything in life that he wanted was free. He spent most of it on drugs and music equipment, but that's his prerogative.
If you had no need for money you wouldn't have such a problem paying for a server to host the files directly. If you find it personally revolting to be paid for YOUR time and energy then just take the money needed to pay for the server and donate the rest to a charitable organization of your choice. Saying its immoral is inaccurate at best. Your choosing to not charge. But it has nothing to do with morality. Whether or not you charge for something that you own the rights to is a personal choice but is not a 'morality' condition. There is no right or wrong answer. You have the choice whether or not to charge and I have the choice whether or not to pay whatever fee you choose to set. You own the intellectual property rights to your software. You can choose to give it away freely as you are doing now or you can choose to sell it for a profit and make a living or you can choose an inbetween and just sell it for enough to make ends meet or even less and just enough to pay for the provision of it. ALL of those levels of choice are perfectly moral and legitamte because you own the property rights. Its whether we, the end users OBEY those decisions that makes it a moral issue. There is a legitamte compromise. If you have decided that you wish to support bittorrent but at the same time wish to respect the decision of those that wish to not use it and are willing to pay a little money for the service of being able to receive your software, then all you have to do is just charge for the download ability. Just charge for http/ftp downloads. Then you could leave the bittorrent up for people who want to mess with it but provide a quick and easy access for those that don't want to use it or don't trust it or for whatever reason object to its use. Being that ive already gotten it working Id probably use bittorrent the way I and several others on the list have described, as just a download tool, but had I been been a first time user to the site and seen a 5 dollar download option I may have gone with it instead. Anyway if ive stepped over any boundaries let me know. I can get intense in conversations and not always guauge the receiver best. Ill apologize for any offenses that I may have made against you personally. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David A. Desrosiers Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 4:04 PM To: Plucker General List Subject: RE: bittorrent/mirrors > There is a solution, but you wont like it. > Charge for it. No. -OUR- personal morals prohibit that. Next solution? _______________________________________________ plucker-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-list _______________________________________________ plucker-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-list
