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minus-squareElHexo [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·11 months ago If it wasn’t, no one would ever develop any kind of software or scientific research The overwhelming majority of software developers and researchers are paid a salary and don’t get own the IP of their inventions.
minus-squareHughJanus@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·11 months agoWho said anything about who owns the IP? Software developers get paid because people pay for their software. If no one paid for it, it would never be made. Why is this so hard to understand?
minus-squarealcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-211 months agolol I clicked your name to see if you were doing a bit, and apparently you don’t tip servers. People who deserve money, according to Huge Anus: [❌]Food service workers [❌]Hollywood workers [❌]Tech workers [✅]Landlords, Shareholders, copyright trolls, and IP rights giants
minus-squareHughJanus@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-211 months agoOkay so now you’re just going to make up random lies about me. That’s a bold strategy, Cotton.
minus-squaresilent_water [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 months ago If that 18% ain’t on the menu, I ain’t paying. nope, pretty sure they have you dead to rights
minus-squareCmdrShepard@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·11 months agoYou did when you said you’re depriving the creator of compensation when you pirate something.
The overwhelming majority of software developers and researchers are paid a salary and don’t get own the IP of their inventions.
Who said anything about who owns the IP? Software developers get paid because people pay for their software. If no one paid for it, it would never be made. Why is this so hard to understand?
lol I clicked your name to see if you were doing a bit, and apparently you don’t tip servers.
People who deserve money, according to Huge Anus:
[❌]Food service workers
[❌]Hollywood workers
[❌]Tech workers
[✅]Landlords, Shareholders, copyright trolls, and IP rights giants
Okay so now you’re just going to make up random lies about me. That’s a bold strategy, Cotton.
nope, pretty sure they have you dead to rights
You did when you said you’re depriving the creator of compensation when you pirate something.