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Imagine the person who cannot afford a book or paper on a particular topic. Should they not have access to the information?

I agree, as always there is nuance, but zlib et al fulfill a need for certain people. In b4 public libraries, they aren't equal around the world, depend on geographic proximity and add latency to the learning process.

[null_object]

> Imagine the person who cannot afford a book or paper on a particular topic. Should they not have access to the information?

Imagine I want whatever you do for a living? Should you work for me for free?

[jliptzin]

That analogy doesn’t work when the marginal cost to do that work is literally zero, in fact he wouldn’t even know he’s performing the “work”

[braingenious]

“Imagine a completely different question! Check mate!”

GP asked a simple yes or no question: Do you think knowledge should be denied to people that can’t afford it?

Your answer is “yes.” I don’t see the added value of trying feeble linguistic jiu jitsu to justify your position that yes, society should deny knowledge to those who can’t afford it.

[theCrowing]

I would be on board with you if only we got access to the public founded papers.

[benibela]

I do research at an university and develop open-source software.

Everything I work on is free to download