points by iamleppert 2 days ago | 0 comments
Good! Information wants to be free, not locked up in some ivory tower. This is a great time upon us, when academics and ivy league elites can no longer gate keep knowledge and hoard it for their ego. Knowledge should benefit humanity as broadly as possible, not just the rich and their academic ilk.
[–] Marha01 2 days ago
[–] bigstrat2003 2 days ago
I always supported copyright. Your accusation of hypocrisy is misplaced, or at the very least not precise enough because you're not aiming it at a specific person.
[–] kemotep 2 days ago
Why couldn’t they pay for the book to get that knowledge then?
Or do you believe, all books should be free, authors shouldn’t be compensated ever? Why should we compensate programmers or any knowledge worker than if the fruits of their labor should thusly be freely distributed?
[–] bulbar 2 days ago
It's not the information itself that get sold, but the specific composition of information arranged as a book. Work went into it and people who do it sell that rightfully.
[–] sedan_baklazhan 2 days ago
> not just the rich
Supposedly the trillion dollar company isn’t in the set of “rich” here, but professors are.
[–] _doctor_love 2 days ago
Can I have your credit card and social please? Pretty sure that information wants to be free, too.
[–] qwerpy 2 days ago
Haha. I appreciate the intent behind this. HN will hate and downvote it of course, but we need constant reminders that we are emotional, take sides just like everyone else, and selectively get outraged about things.
Very soon, all information will be free!