a very basic moral question
"And so we face, in the twenty-first century, a very basic moral question. If you could make as many loaves of bread as it took to feed the world, by baking one loaf and pressing a button, how could you justify charging more for bread than the poorest people could afford to pay?"
~ Eben Moglen, on free software and social justice, via larry lessig
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Depends how much the button costs...
oh well :) but he's talking about "marginal" cost here...i.e. quoting his speech, "at essentially no additional cost beyond the cost it required to make the first copy" :)
Hey I'm all for free stuff... ;-)
But how about this - You've just scraped by producing Bread 1.0 and it's feeding the world but you are pretty sure that Bread 1.1 will make people dance better and if you can fund it Bread 2.0 will cure blindness.
Morally you you could make a pretty good case for profiting of your existing product, surely.