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Copying is not theft. > I think it’s unethical and exploitive to take my labor given for free to the community and claim it as your own for your personal enri
by imgabe 3y ago
Copying is not theft.
> I think it’s unethical and exploitive to take my labor given for free to the community and claim it as your own for your personal enrichment.
Nobody is claiming anything is their own. You gave it away. You did the labor, it will always have been done regardless of what anyone does with it after that.
There is no difference in the effect on you, so why are you mad about it? If you want to lock it in a box so nobody else can ever look at your precious baby, then do that. Don't put it out where anyone can use it and then get mad when they use it. What did you make it for if you didn't want anyone to use it?
Presumably you got something out of making whatever you did, and that was enough reason to make it. If you wanted to keep some exclusive right to it, then you shouldn't have made it publicly available.