The swarm gives me a copy of the movie/game/CD and I feel compelled to give back at least as much data as I was given. But there are enough people with a sense of fairness to make the system mostly work. It's true that quite a few people don't care, which is probably one reason why all torrents eventually die. I don't believe in taking from the swarm more than I am giving back. I upload at least as much as I download because the whole system is not sustainable otherwise (essentially a selfish motive). I think seeds are mostly from people with a sense of fairness. Usually it happens the other way around, people doing it for the love getting disillusioned by those doing it for the money so it's always nice to see it go the other way around for a change. The mistake these people are making is assuming that what motivates them motivates others. People were surfing and rock climbing and flying model airplanes long before there was any sort of sponsorship involved and sponsorships were basically from companies looking to cash in from association with the hobby, either trying to become a lifestyle brand like soda companies aligning themselves with extreeeeeeeeeme! sports or actual suppliers of the equipment wanting to get their name out amongst the participating amateurs. It's like any other kind of hobby people get involved in.
Most of this stuff was done as a hobby, for bragging rights. What could possibly motivate them?īalmer: Love and the respect of their peers. Gates: What? Preposterous! Anything worth doing is worth doing for money. Surely we can pay them more than they're making right now.īalmer: They're not making anything right now. Gates: If we can't buy them or sue them, what are we supposed to do? Let's go after the programmers. They're busy trying to emulate the look and feel of Windows. Gates: No bother, we'll just rip off what they do and when they sue us we'll buy the company.īalmer: It doesn't work that way. Balmer: Sir, there is a new threat facing us, Open Source.
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