Free outside - expensive inside?

It is inspired by this topic.

Maybe I am carping, but damn, the second paragraph struck clean:

Use original content. ...
... copying a foreign language text, do not need to be afraid of foreign copyright holders ....
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Well, is it not sly? Where, where, I ask, my own?

Where do we (including me) take 90% of any more or less useful / new / technical / innovative information? Have them. Why? Because there is paid for this information .

Any bourgeois institute has a specially trained comrade who writes serious or, for the money, non-fiction articles and various publications that are then sold in thin brochures. And, very often, they post it for free on websites. Whence and pi #% $ yat copyrighted utility most popular resources, including offline.

The strongest, in my opinion, example is RAND Corporation . There are absolutely free of charge very serious research and other developments. Why free? And because they are already well paid. Yes, they sell paper books, but this, to put it mildly, is not the main income of RAND. Well, countless examples are simpler.

And what, you say, free artists, I mean, bloggers? They're writing for free, right? And interesting and useful!
First, there are very few of them - dozens, not more. And secondly, not to explain to the people how such blogs are monetized. Behind the hill, this business has been put on stream, and for this very reason, they have much more such enthusiasts. But in our case, the indicators are more depressing - in general, only a few people write about the case.

The same story in the open-source communities, with the difference that work there is paid more indirectly. Say, not always with money, but with fame, karma and other oral wow factors. However, there too people receive values ​​in exchange for structured information.

Yes, I have found useful and serious things many times on enthusiast blogs, forums and in communities. But I already wrote above - the main value is the structured information. So these heaps of pearls you know what - just exceptions, confirming the rule.

It is also very well seen in the technical writing environment. The same linux-community has a bunch of forums, hautushek, faku, kukbuk, man and everything else. However, personally, I’ll prefer a book to learn Linux. Paper, electronic - it does not matter. It is important that the author received money (or other valuables) for writing it. The book, in which the whole pile of pieces of information, knowledge and guesswork is reduced to a coherent, logical structure. Therefore, reading and learning Flex from scratch on an Adobe book is pleasant, interesting and useful. It is useful because I get not just knowledge, but knowledge ordered. And becoming a system administrator on forums and hautushkam may be interesting, but not productive.

Summarize.

Fans and enthusiasts of free information should already think about what to pay for any work. And until the rewriter’s work is paid adequately, but the creator isn’t seeing the original content.