alt Hacker NewsWhen I buy I chair I don't pay a share of my income to the furniture shop when I get rich. I would buy another chair at some point too, maybe fancier one (or the same). Because chairs are commodity. I do however pay taxes to the government based on my income because it keeps doing ongoing maintenance on everything.
Everyone wants to be paid forever for something they produced once is some kind of a mind virus. Make me a better chair and maybe I will buy it, but don't expect to become a trillion dollar company. It's deeply unfair to everyone who wants to be a trillion dollar company of course.
What is really funny to me -- the ones that do make it to collect the rent indefinitely also decrease their own taxes paid to the government AND also decrease the amount of contribution to society by making less and shittier stuff.
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You haven’t bought the chair, they’ve given it to you for free, but they expect you to pay if you use it in a hugely profitable endeavour.
That is very reasonable.
A model's weights can be pirated unlike a chair and that is the difference..?
Analogy doesn't apply to this case, as you are paying for the chair upfront but not paying for the model weights upfront.
A chair manufacturer should be free to offer a service whereby you pay a monthly percentage of your income for the use of a chair.
I don't think many chair-users would opt for it, but I see no reason to ban it. Some services already work this way, like accounting firms that specialise in doing self-employed people's taxes.
> When I buy I chair
You should, sitting on that chair got you in the zone where you made it rich. /s
> Everyone wants to be paid forever for something they produced once is some kind of a mind virus.
Then make a better chair yourself. Also, I don't see how chair2 needs r&d and incurs hardware costs.