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by gtCameron 4212 days ago
The benefit of open source software is clear: If I open source my text editor it can be made better by other people contributing to it.

I don't see the benefit of "open sourcing" high quality media assets. The expectation of a media asset is for it to be completed and then used as is, not continuously improved like a software product.
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OvidNaso 4212 days ago
The Free Software/Culture stuff is also about DRY, in a sense. Say I need a picture of a stream for a project. I get my camera and drive a couple hours to the woods. Batch process the set and finally decide on one picture to use. At the end of this, fairly expensive process, I actually have 10-15 pretty good, usable pictures that I no longer am going to use (at least not in the near future). The (modern) traditional ideology is to lock those away just in case I may need a picture like that in the future.

Makeing them free to others means they don't have to repeat the same process for basically the exact same thing. Now multiply this by the 100's or thousand's of other assets that could be used in a small project.

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Arcanum-XIII 4212 days ago
Picture doesn't work repeatedly. Same for design and other graphical element. It gets boring after the second use, annoying as hell the third and there's no fourth time. We want to experience "new" stuff. We can already seen those kind of complain with the light reuse of some stuff in video game and movies...
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popey456963 4212 days ago
In my opinion, it's actually more about the happiness you feel when you give these things away. It's doubtful you'll use them again and so why not give them away.
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