On Monday 31 May 2010 17:00:27 fons(a)kokkinizita.net wrote:
And my point is: there is no point in showing this,
because
selling copies has to happen after the work has been produced,
and therefore selling copies can never be a way to produce
a great work.
Nah, you could pre-sell copies if you could find buyers.
In the best case it can give you the means to produce the
*next* great work.
I was just trying to order a peperback for my mother in law. It was not
available yet bout you could pre-order on most of the sites.
A Swarm of Angels :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Swarm_of_Angels
was trying to do it for a film. Although the claim is open source, iirc it was
an NC license and not what I would call open source as a result and so I did
not kick in.
Ciao,
all the best,
drew