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So your argument is that companies should be able to profit off of my work for free?

He states that he does not go after personal blogs.

I have yet to hear a decent argument that explains why commercial profit-making organisations should be able to get my work for free.



So your argument is that you should be able to use open communication platform to promote your work in any way possible for nothing, but collect as much money as you can by coercing into submission using any means necessary of people who ran into you work on this open platform and liked it so much that they shared and/or extended it?


> people who ran into you work on this open platform and liked it so much that they appropriated it for their own gains

ftfy




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