Gaywallet (they/it)@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.org · 1 year agoPluralistic: “If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing”pluralistic.netexternal-linkmessage-square204fedilinkarrow-up1343arrow-down10cross-posted to: piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.comtechnology@lemmy.mlhackernews@derp.foo
arrow-up1343arrow-down1external-linkPluralistic: “If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing”pluralistic.netGaywallet (they/it)@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.org · 1 year agomessage-square204fedilinkcross-posted to: piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.comtechnology@lemmy.mlhackernews@derp.foo
minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year ago 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.
minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year ago“snake game” returns over one hundred twenty thousand results on github.
minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoyou’re moving the goalposts.
minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoyou never mentioned ‘quality’ until you wanted to disqualify data that didn’t support your position.
minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agothere are over one hundred fifty thousand results on github for “tictactoe”. just how many paid games do you think there are, by the way?
minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agothis doesn’t prove anyone ever needs to be paid to make something. a single counter example disproves the claim.
minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agogithub shows a hundred thousand repositories for the query “hangman”. assuming 10% of them are false positives it’s still a great number.
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but that’s not true. people make things all the time without being paid.
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“snake game” returns over one hundred twenty thousand results on github.
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you’re moving the goalposts.
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you never mentioned ‘quality’ until you wanted to disqualify data that didn’t support your position.
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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?
this doesn’t prove anyone ever needs to be paid to make something. a single counter example disproves the claim.
github shows a hundred thousand repositories for the query “hangman”. assuming 10% of them are false positives it’s still a great number.