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>If you believe that books should exist without copyright, then one has to ask --- how many books have you written which you have explicitly placed in the public domain? Or, how many authors have you patronized so as to fund their writing so that they can publish their works freely?

Lol

Edit: I should probably clarify here. While I can’t speak for OP, I can say that, for some reason, I am sure there are people who have done both lol



I've authored quite a bit of book-like content which has been made freely available:

- the Shapeoko wiki (still available on archive.org)

- a couple of articles for TUGboat

- edited a couple of texts on wikibooks trying to make them better

- currently working on https://willadams.gitbook.io/design-into-3d/

The Venn diagram of folks who don't believe in copyright and those who have actually produced something other folks want to read is quite sparse, excepting the odd manifesto.




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