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Probably the same one that Doctorow has used to monetize all his Creative Commons novels. It's jarring that I can freely read every book he's ever written (or a
by Rebelgecko 5y ago
Probably the same one that Doctorow has used to monetize all his Creative Commons novels. It's jarring that I can freely read every book he's ever written (or at least most of them), but not a short blog post about a laptop.
It's like if Ubuntu's package manager started selling the ability to read reviews of the different packages. Canonical has already built a company around giving away an entire operating system for free.
- cdoctorow 5y agohttps://pluralistic.net/2021/09/21/monica-byrne/#think-different https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/21/monica-byrne/#think-diffe...
- davidatbu 5y agoI read two articles by Doctorow about his decisions about, and involvement around, copyright [0][1]. I didn't pick up on anything relating to how his decision to use CC affects monetization. So assuming that Doctorow makes a living off of royalties of printed books, as well as speaking engagement fees, I don't think that this model is widely replicable, especially when it comes to currently paywalled content (like from Substack, WSJ, the Economist, NYT, etc), right? [0] http://www.locusmag.com/Features/2007/11/cory-doctorow-creative-commons.html http://www.locusmag.com/Features/2007/11/cory-doctorow-creat... [1] http://www.locusmag.com/Features/2008/11/cory-doctorow-why-i-copyfight.html http://www.locusmag.com/Features/2008/11/cory-doctorow-why-i...