(Of the Week.)
This week’s Digg: The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities
Free programs = good. No issue, right?
…right?
Well, almost.
While having a list of free programs is fun, it’s also misleading. It’s great that these programs are free, but why aren’t they all free? All programs should be available to everyone, and we ought to be forcing the corporations to make this into a reality, not simply indulging ourselves on our current successes.
So don’t download these programs. Do one better. Download (via BitTorrent or another file-sharing service) the full, paid versions of the programs. (Without paying for them, of course.) You’ll be glad you did – they’re trying to keep the best stuff away from us. We have to show them that we won’t put up with that anymore.
Viva la (digital) revolution!
9 Comments
September 22, 2006 at 6:12 pm
Yeah, having a program that took you months or years of your time to make should be free, that will definatly get people to spend thier time to not get paid. Hell, I wish I could grow up to work my ass off and have my stuff stolen. If free software ever became available to the masses “starving programmers” might be a more common term than “starving artists” (at least they get paid to do art shows, ever heard of a programmers show? I haven’t.)
September 22, 2006 at 6:14 pm
It’s not the programmers who suffer when their product gets stolen – if anything, they get more exposure. The only victims are the corporations who control them (and us).
September 22, 2006 at 11:53 pm
I’m sorry, did I read that correctly, when someone gets thier work stolen, they don’t suffer? What are you smoking?! Exposure doesn’t mean shit if they don’t get money for their work, I would rather be a billionaire who no one has ever heard of, than having the whole population of Earth know my name. By th way, if the “corporations who control them” go down, then so do the programmers. I don’t know if you have ever noticed, but programmers aren’t the greatest salespeople (and that doesn’t mean anything if their stuff is stolen) and can’t sell their product alone, they need the corporations.
Stick that in your pipe and smoke it ya damn hippy! =)
September 23, 2006 at 8:52 am
I’d want the whole population of Earth to know my name…
September 23, 2006 at 11:23 am
Once again, you’re valuing the corporations over the people. Traditional capitalist thinking.
While the corporations and the people who work for them may be hurt, the people in general make a huge leap forward by having all these things provided to them. Putting a few hundred people out of their jobs is a small price to pay for freeing so much to the masses.
September 23, 2006 at 6:45 pm
Corporations employ pretty much ALL of the people in the world, lets think here, how many people do you know that work in a Mom and Pop store, now lets think where all the stuff in these stores comes from……oh hey, it’s corporations.
Where do you get the idea that the “masses” are not free?
Smoking is bad for your brain… Brain crack is good, just plain crack is bad.
September 23, 2006 at 8:54 pm
“Corporations employ pretty much ALL of the people in the world, lets think here, how many people do you know that work in a Mom and Pop store, now lets think where all the stuff in these stores comes from……oh hey, it’s corporations.”
Which is exactly why we need to take them down. They’re far too powerful.
September 24, 2006 at 9:06 am
Then everyone becomes unemployed and looting and rioting become common sight, because everyone will be out of a job (that’s bad). And plus if you remove corporations mom and pop stores start hiring and hiring and before you know it, they become a corporation. And we are right back to where we started, which is a good, not great, place.
September 24, 2006 at 10:53 am
Which is the fault of the capitalist system, not the liberation of information.