Is piracy good for the open source community?

0	More and more music, movies, software and other stuff being "shared" by piracy, will this be a good thing for the open source community? piracy source open community shared asked Jun 29 '11 at 15:14 joosthere 216●18●20●28

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How does someone stealing PAID software help the open source community which offers FREE software. If someone could have gotten the same thing from the free software as the paid then they would not have had to steal the paid, they would have just used the free. I am not really sure I understand this question.

answered Jun 29 '11 at 15:23

TheTechDude
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Piracy makes it possible to share all the data possible and everyone is able to use it. Everyone is in this way able to learn new things and discuss that with each other. Also that "shared" data is mostly illigele and the owner or the copyright will make less money. If they make their stuff cheaper more people will buy their data.

This free sharing and learning all the new things about that certain data might help the open source community to get larger, because more people will be able to understand it and in this way, more people get involved.

answered Jun 29 '11 at 15:52

joosthere
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the owner of the copyright will not make less money. it is a sale they would of never had even if the person couldn't get the software illegally.

(Jul 01 '11 at 10:42) ChuckysChild

I'm confused. You're asking if stealing free software will affect a community of free software?

Or are you asking does commercial piracy affect the community of free software?

Personally I believe the Open Source community thrives because of the commercial software industry. I don't believe piracy of media has an impact on the community, but it is possible that participants in the open source community use pirated software in the production of open source software.

If the open source community did not have access to certain products and relied on open source products to produce open source products (or had to pay for the things they use), probably initially there would be a slowdown in the production of good open source products but it would in the end result in far more and better programming utilities as the open source community wrote more utilities for their own.

answered Jul 01 '11 at 10:49

Duodave
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