At 9:26 AM -0500 7/17/07, Larry Garfield wrote:
On Tuesday 17 July 2007, tedd wrote: Once I have written code or words, the time I have spent on that is gone. I will never get that time back, regardless of whether or not I get paid for it after the fact.
Ok, then it would be an acceptable excuse for your employer not to give you a paycheck -- after all, you already spent the time, right? That doesn't make sense dude.
I don't mean to be putting words in your mouth, but it sounds like your claim here is absurd.
I'm not arguing copyright, or any other government bullshit, I'm simply saying that we all work for someone and we all should be paid for our efforts.
An author of any digital material (code, books, music, whatever) should be paid for their effort just like anyone else. The idea that because the work product is digital, and thus there was no effort expended in making a copy, and thus implies no obligation to the author, is just plain wrong.
I've written software all my life and I have on numerous occasions run into individuals who ask something like "Can you get me a copy? It's not worth it for me to pay for it because <you add in whatever reason you want>. I would just like to get a copy."
However, these same people would be outraged if someone took a cent from their paycheck.
We can't have double standards because of the medium -- work is work. If you didn't mean it that way -- my apologies. Cheers, tedd -- ------- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
