Comment on The economics of writing technical booksparentComments−lofaszvanitt2yNah, people should pay, at least a minimum amount for others's work. Look at open source, it's a mess, exactly because of the nonexisting payment layer. And what they used open source code? To bootstrap llms, for free.−beej712yI'm not saying you shouldn't pay others. I'm just saying that iff you have the means, you might consider doing the work for free.
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Nah, people should pay, at least a minimum amount for others's work. Look at open source, it's a mess, exactly because of the nonexisting payment layer. And what they used open source code? To bootstrap llms, for free.
I'm not saying you shouldn't pay others. I'm just saying that iff you have the means, you might consider doing the work for free.