Re: Design principles and ethics

[Marcus Brinkmann]

At Wed, 3 May 2006 20:21:17 +0200,
Pierre THIERRY <address@hidden> wrote:
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> Scribit Bas Wijnen dies 03/05/2006 hora 19:50:
> > > And do you know what the side-effects are?
> > No. I suppose the rich were getting richer on the expense of the poor?
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> An author could only hope being paid when ordered a work. The only real
> way to earn a living as an author was to be under the protection of a
> patron.
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> Which leads to self-censorship, because an author cannot affort to write
> something his patron would not agree with.

This is not different at all from how self-censorship works today in
the media.  The patron is the editor, with the advertisers behind him.
Or, in the case of music, the label.
 
However, a patron (or equivalent) is not the only possible way to
sustain creative people that contribute to society.

Thanks,
Marcus