On Monday, June 11, 2018 at 1:02:15 PM UTC-5, Chris Angelico wrote: > You're trying to argue against my hypothetical statements > about game publishing, and declaring that it's possible to > use software to encourage hardware sales. But my point was > that, absent copyright and the ability to make money from > software, software probably *would not exist*. Tell me, do > you go to a car manufacturer and buy the ability to use a > third-party dashboard? If the dashboard itself is > fundamentally unsaleable, and MUST be given away for free, > who other than the original manufacturer will produce one?
A dashboard is a horrible analogy. Software and hardware are connected at the _hip_. A more correct analogy to describe the relationship between computer hardware and computer software would be a car and an engine. A car is basically useless without an engine, and likewise for an engine without a car. And yes, there are aftermarket engines sold by third parties and people buy them all the time to replace OEM engines. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
