| ▲ | edoloughlin 9 hours ago |
| It’s reductio ad absurdum to make a point. But you could argue that income from Patreon forms part/all of a creator’s salary. I don’t agree that this is an Apple hating thread. Its commentary on a pretty despicable action that Apple is taking. |
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| ▲ | kalterdev 9 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| “Despicable” is by an order of magnitude softer word compared to “Apple can legally take your salary” Sure, Apple is greedy. But it doesn’t deserve what is usually assumed: legal persecution. |
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| ▲ | willtemperley 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| > It’s reductio ad absurdum It's not, it's just factually wrong. If Apple can legally claim 30% of your salary then a doctor using an iPad to demonstrate results of a scan to a patient has to pay Apple 30% of their consultation fee. That's reductio ad absurdum. Lol. |
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| ▲ | spacebanana7 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | > If Apple can legally claim 30% of your salary then a doctor using an iPad to demonstrate results of a scan to a patient has to pay Apple 30% of their consultation fee. Apple could absolutely do this. They could say that professional medical use of macOS requires a commercial license, and the price of that commercial licence could be linked to revenue. Doctors - or rather their hospital IT/procurement departments - would be held to the terms of service they agree to. Far more rigorously than ordinary consumers. | | |
| ▲ | willtemperley 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | If that were legally enforcable, which is almost certainly not the case, Microsoft and Google could do the same, making your argument moot in this context. | | |
| ▲ | spacebanana7 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Every software company can do this. Oracle Java is free for personal use but if you use it in prod you have to pay a licence based on the number of employees in your company. Epic games takes 5% of your revenue above a million if you use unreal for a game. Docker desktop requires a paid license if you have over 250 employees or $10 million in revenue. | | |
| ▲ | willtemperley 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | Let's continue with the reductio ad absurdum - a taxi driver uses their iPhone to navigate. Can Apple take 30% of their revenue? | | |
| ▲ | spacebanana7 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Absolutely, if the taxi driver signs a contract / agrees to terms of service. What law prohibits them from charging that? This is why open source is so important. |
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| ▲ | g947o 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Heard of the word "contract"? | |
| ▲ | bigDinosaur 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | What would make this legally unenforceable? |
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