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Why "be free"? Why not "pay you"? I mean, where do you draw the line?
by StavrosK 7y ago
Why "be free"? Why not "pay you"? I mean, where do you draw the line?
- pmoriarty 7y agoBecause I'm a fan of the gift economy. This was the way the Internet used to be when it started. This is the spirit that's common in academia, but has sadly waned once the internet got commercialized and grew out of control.
- StavrosK 7y agoIn that case, please make a free host, I will be your most ardent supporter.
- buboard 7y agoAcademia is not free
- aeorgnoieang 7y agoThey're still struggling to give away stuff that they've (somewhat implicitly) promised to give away, like their research.
- SAI_Peregrinus 7y agoBack in the days of the early internet it wasn't free to host images. You paid for a web host, had your own site, and hosted what you want. But you paid!
- pmoriarty 7y agoI didn't mean free to run your own image hosting site, but free to use. Like Wikipedia. There are costs to run it, but it's free to use. Same with public libraries.
- the-peter 7y agoI have a great way StavrosK can offer his image hosting for free, forever. pmoriarty if you would just pay all of StavrosK's hosting bills going forward we can all live in the promised land of free image hosting.
- defined 7y agoNow that is the gift economy at its finest!