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The point isn't that the photographers don't have rights to these particular photos. The point is you criticize a person for even asking the question. Not eve
by grecy 7y ago
The point isn't that the photographers don't have rights to these particular photos.
The point is you criticize a person for even asking the question.
Not everyone has the same insight into the licensing and legal ramifications of images being distributed with OSes, and there's never a reason to be condescending and demeaning to someone asking a simple question.
You could have chosen to educate them in a helpful and friendly way, but you didn't.
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- diffeomorphism 7y ago> You could have chosen to educate them in a helpful and friendly way, but you didn't. > I take it you've never paid for food and rent from the income from your photographs. Are you talking about yourself being unfriendly and throwing accusations?
- grecy 7y agoYou're absolutely right that my reply wasn't the friendlies way to go about things. I bit back to the original comment, and I shouldn't have done that.
- chipotle_coyote 7y agoThe original comment I was responding to was, in its entirety: "Whatever happened to copyright..." And I'm gonna be honest: to me, that is not just asking an innocent question in a friendly and non-confrontational way. It's implicitly pretty accusatory.