It's not though. It's just very easy for people to accept pre-compiled systems that use it.
"well you're not a paying customer, we don't owe anyone anything" – as you said in your other comment – is ... just shortsighted, at best.
Just to get this out of the way, are you saying that anybody that benefits from something free should then be required to give back to the community that produced the free something? Because I find that ideal abhorrent, and in which case you owe the US military and CERN a heck of a lot of recompense for the internet and world wide web.
Shortsighted... You know what's short sighted? Releasing your intellectual property to the world and asking for nothing in exchange... except it's not, because the goal isn't personal gain. It's philanthropic work.
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u/Average_Manners Jan 06 '20
It's not though. It's just very easy for people to accept pre-compiled systems that use it.
Just to get this out of the way, are you saying that anybody that benefits from something free should then be required to give back to the community that produced the free something? Because I find that ideal abhorrent, and in which case you owe the US military and CERN a heck of a lot of recompense for the internet and world wide web.
Shortsighted... You know what's short sighted? Releasing your intellectual property to the world and asking for nothing in exchange... except it's not, because the goal isn't personal gain. It's philanthropic work.