The creative person IS the big corporation.

You can track any organization back to a person or a small group of people with an idea. They believe in their idea to the extent that they are willing to invest their time and resources to give it life.

That “system” of people with the idea worked within the “system” in which they live–one that is loosely organized to provide basics such as shelter, food, security, transportation, and so on.

Now imagine that one of the people developing the idea uses a telephone one day. In doing so, aren’t they acknowledging their need for and faith in that system? And by paying their phone bill aren’t they compensating the worker who mined the ore that produced the bolt used to assemble the tower on which the lines are strung that make their call possible?

We can agree that some groups of people seem to receive an unreasonable amount of compensation for the idea they developed, but beauty of our system is we are free to replace it with our own alternative. The critical piece, and what I was originally talking about, is that we play by the rules of the game we find ourselves a part of. That we abide by the rules of the current system until we replace it with a better alternative.

Imagine for a moment the billions of creative thoughts and ideas contributed by the hundreds of millions of people who have made it possible for me to click on a key and make what I type show up on your computer–it is staggering.

To define everything solely in terms of our personal world would ignore the contributions of all those who made our way of life and work possible.

If the software industry would charge reasonable prices AND assure to the customer that the biggest part of the money goes directly to the creators, I’d feel more at ease buying software or fonts.

Meanwhile, I continue to use open source software, fonts and operating systems wherever possible, because these people are able to provide high quality software for FREE, while others can’t do this even for money.
Not because I do not want to pay for anything, but because I’m not willing to put up with greedy corporations and people whining about their content being used without their consent. Have a look at the chinese product pirate machinery, then talk about people ripping off fonts again.