New data shows that physical software dollar sales dipped to an all-time July low of $85 million in the US — the worst total since tracking began in 1995.
We’re saying the same things, just I’m saying keep physical as an option too as it has been given the entanglement in ownership.
And the same argument can be used for archival hosting too. You say we can’t expect physical to be produced in perpetuity (not what I was saying btw) but we also can’t expect a company to host downloads in perpetuity either. Hence individual ownership to allow users to form communities and build archives outside of the corporations.
Those communities can then be protected and encouraged the way labor organization should be.
We’re saying the same things, just I’m saying keep physical as an option too as it has been given the entanglement in ownership.
And the same argument can be used for archival hosting too. You say we can’t expect physical to be produced in perpetuity (not what I was saying btw) but we also can’t expect a company to host downloads in perpetuity either. Hence individual ownership to allow users to form communities and build archives outside of the corporations.
Those communities can then be protected and encouraged the way labor organization should be.