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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
As opposed to fraudulently passing off something that has a value of $0 as something that have a value of $10? The essential point here is that it is not just "any competitor" who is offering a lower price, it is the competitor whose product you cloned.
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The concept of "value" is perhaps where we diverge. I don't regard something as having a
value of $0 just because someone chooses to give it away free.
I could agree that taking a copy of a PG ebook, which volunteers have spent many hours creating (scanning, OCR'ing, proofreading, marking up) in order to make the book freely available, making a few minor changes such as removing the PG blurb, and selling it, is greedy and tasteless. But not immoral or fraudulent.