It's such a Western / Capitalistic thing to do - look at someone else's success and either assume he's being paid the big bucks, or on hearing he isn't start wondering why not.
And yet we live in a world where the Linus Tovalds, or John Resig's and literally a million others happily created enormous social value, and got nothing (directly) out of it. (Those who were around in the early days can remember some of the words bandied around to describe Open Source, Communist et al.)
>> I'd rather the guy who made the original rather than an app cloning team
You don't need to worry about Josh making money or not. He's doing what he wants to do for rewards other than money, and debasing his effort into some sort of money grab is not necessary.
> And yet we live in a world where the Linus Tovalds, or John Resig's and literally a million others happily created enormous social value, and got nothing (directly) out of it.
Linus Torvalds reportedly got $20M stock from the Red Hat IPO (appreciating to >$100M in later years), and receives at least a few million per year from the Linux Foundation. Fully deserved of course, and arguably only a miniscule fraction of his contribution to society. But he is comfortably Ultra High Net Worth category.
Sure. But you can’t directly compare a complex OS to a simple game. I’ll only go after one issue. 2 weeks compared to the amount of time this game will remain popular likely roughly equals the amount of time it took for Linus to begin lucratively financially benefitting from his open source work that doesn’t have a shelf life of popularity of a season.
Saying nothing was gained directly out of their work makes the argument moot. Since they got a lot of financial benefits because of their work.
I don’t adhere or enjoy western or capitalist things. So it isn’t just that sort of thing to do. It makes complete sense for hard leftists to want a creator to benefit financially from a viral sensation they created. We are playing the game of the west + capitalism whether we like it or not.
And yet we live in a world where the Linus Tovalds, or John Resig's and literally a million others happily created enormous social value, and got nothing (directly) out of it. (Those who were around in the early days can remember some of the words bandied around to describe Open Source, Communist et al.)
>> I'd rather the guy who made the original rather than an app cloning team
You don't need to worry about Josh making money or not. He's doing what he wants to do for rewards other than money, and debasing his effort into some sort of money grab is not necessary.