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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
What is reasonable about his opinion that people who give their work away for free are "as*holes"? What's the alternative, forcing people to charge for their work? If someone wants to give something away, shouldn't they be able to? He rails against amateurs, but the amateurs have every bit as much right to write and to distribute their work on their terms as he does.
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I have vacillated on this issue in the past. Certainly it seems reasonable for someone to be free to give away their work. On the other side of the coin, a very rich person could give away their work and put a working class person out of a job. I fear the potential for the mega rich to crush industries, as they have the capitol to do so. For those who think that such things do not happen research Government subsidised crops in the US and their effect on agriculture in developing countries.
I think that it is reasonable for the price of items to reflect the time that people spend on them.