Paul Graham has lost the plot
I'll just cherry pick this gem here: <i>"What would happen if creators couldn’t charge for their creations? The same as if you couldn’t charge for lines of computer code: there’d be less of it."</i><p>Spotted the massive, gaping flaw in the argument yet?<p>It's 2012, if you make this argument then I am done with you. Linux is how old? How much of the internet runs on it?<p>Done.<p>Edit: Wow, really? Why is this still a necessary argument?<p>The linux kernel is utterly free. Yet it's still developed. It's still a state of the art product. And people still make money off of linux and linux-based products.<p>Do I honestly have to connect the dots here?<p>Spoilers: if you can't or don't want to charge for the code directly then maybe you find some alternate way to charge for <i>something else</i> or you use another form of supporting development.<p>The analogy to the creation of music and movies should be so frelling obvious I shouldn't even need to make it.