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I agree with all of this, but there's also a flip side.

If you benefit from somebody's work, you should find ways to support it. Not because it belongs to anybody, but because whatever it is, you should have an incentive to keep it going.




I support the good will in voluntary support for the arts.

But I don't think this works as an economic system for rewarding creators, given corporations really do not have an incentive to help others benefit from new font creation or other artistic expression, just because they have themselves.

It would be interesting to have a list of all kinds of products where licensing can be the biggest headache in using them. Then seeing if a common theme emerges that might suggest a fairer, more mentally efficient, licensing mechanism.




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