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bigstrat2003today at 3:40 AM1 replyview on HN

That makes no sense at all. Software is not a scarce resource, unlike your money. If you donate money to a charity who gives it to Amazon, you would have good reason to be upset. But if you write a piece of software and Amazon uses it, other (needier) users benefit just as much!

Or to put it in another context, if you went and volunteered for a highway cleanup, would you get mad if Bezos drove on the highway you cleaned? Because that is what your position here is analogous to, and that seems like a poor line of reasoning to me.


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lemmingtoday at 4:17 AM

> if you went and volunteered for a highway cleanup, would you get mad if Bezos drove on the highway you cleaned?

No, but I would get mad if Bezos made a ton of money charging people to drive on a clean highway after I had cleaned it for free.

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