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I don't.

I find no shame in people choosing to give something away without asking for compensation.

I find no shame in an economy which contains a significant amount of resources given gratis by choice.

I do find shame in the insistence that everyone who gets a whiff of usefulness of some creation owes the creator (or the descendants of the owner of the creation) a toll.

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Yes, but GP wasn't advocating some sort of Disneyesque intellectual property regime. On the contrary, GP is pointing out that a lot of big, rich companies and their investors have been freeloading off the volunteer work of these 2 guys. So it's a "shame" in the sense of being an unfortunate situation. It's not illegal. Maybe it's not even unethical. But it is a damn shame.

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