Chrome and Android make google lots of money, yet people that aren't google employees still commit to the projects. Google pays them nothing.
I don't find this exploitive, and I think this is very similar.
I don't find this exploitive, and I think this is very similar.
A post on the Huffington has advertisements alongside it making the company money. That alone makes it much more a grey area than contributing to an open source project.
It seems it is a trade off good writers are choosing to make and if there is more value in their writing a competitor will come along and steal the best writers.
The Huffington Post makes money on ads. Every user who uses Google Chrome is a user that isn't using another browser. This means Google makes more money on search ads because they aren't giving a cut to Mozilla, Apple, etc.