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>Why free? Surely you don't do everything for monetary compensation? Maintaining a contact, helping a friend move, having a guest, teaching someone something,
by npteljes 5y ago
>Why free?
Surely you don't do everything for monetary compensation? Maintaining a contact, helping a friend move, having a guest, teaching someone something, people do all sorts of stuff for free. Just because feel like it, inclined to the thing itself, promoting their other work, wanting to make the world a better place. Ruin others' similar efforts, to emerge as a monopoly and excercise larger control[0]. There's plenty of reasons.
[0] https://www.gwern.net/Complement https://www.gwern.net/Complement
- lnxg33k1 5y agoI would say that I think you missed the part where I wrote "Why someone should go to such lengths in order to make someone money for free?" To recap, I would help a friend move, because he is.. well, my friend? I have a guest... because I invited him and he is not going to take the food I prepared to sell it outside my house? And you can of course promote your work, people have been doing that since ever, you can do that with also licenses where people can see but not sell But yeah I think I didn't put enough emphasis at this point on "Why someone should go to such lengths in order to make someone money for free?" where the important idea is "To make someone money"
- npteljes 5y agoYes you're right, I missed that. To be frank, this changes my argument completely. It's also the reason why, when talking about open source, I dislike the MIT and other such permissive licenses, and prefer the GPL world. Because it seems like that the GNU people are on the same side regarding this argument. Even then, this license permits for that making someone else richer scenario, but at least not at the complete expense of the original author.