Comments by "Traveller" (@traveller23e) on "Second Thought" channel.

  1. Yup. Programmer here, the only place my name ever ends up is on my personal side-projects.
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  2. Not to mention how there's always the risk that your library will somehow end up patented by a major company despite your best efforts to try to avoid that from happening
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  3. Depends on the country. If the US tried to, they could probably pull it off (though they might struggle a little with diplomacy). If Uganda attempted the feat, they'd probably lose all kinds of existing treaties and external companies would stop operating in their country.
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  4.  @j.c.2240  That requires predefined scope of work, though. In many areas, that's actually quite difficult to figure out.
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  5.  @SecondThought  Although that's already way different from how it works now. I'm a software developer, and in the industry it's pretty rare for the devs to actually get any credit for what they've done save in open source or free software. But most companies don't like being transparent about their software, so finding an open source job is difficult. Actually, I've long thought software source code should be required to be publicly available as a consumer protection measure; it wouldn't even require changing IP laws, it could even be copyrighted in the same manner of a book. But at the end of the day, users need to know if 1) companies are lying about the data they collect, 2) if there are major security flaws that need fixing, and 3) if maybe the terrible code quality implies a somewhat haphazard working environment for the programmers.
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  6.  @spnyp33  And? At the end of the day, if you got paid to write the song in the first place should you get extra profits for no additional work indefinitely just because it happened to become popular? If the company comes along and sells all those copies, they would have to compete with any other company doing the same (remember, no IP). Thus, the price to the consumer would stabilize at a much lower point than it would with IP; considering the internet, probably an amount just above the cost of producing the CD (or whatever). Also, I'll remind you that in today's world it often isn't the song writer who ends up getting the money. It's the singer, or perhaps some other group the singer works for. If it's part of a musical, probably the production company.
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  7. Honestly it's a tragedy there are so many holy wars within the community. Seriously, pull your heads outta your arses about the whole Linux vs GNU/Linux thing and work together to create good software. And please, try to get some companies interested in paying FOSS devs.
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