Comment on Why isn't free stuff (public domain/noncommercial) discussed as much as paid stuff?
adespoton@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
As a counter example, all the free/pd stuff on archive.org gets discussed pretty regularly, as does Wikipedia.
Maybe it’s that when it’s free, people just use it or they don’t. You don’t get people saying “Hey, did you see this awesome free article on Wikipedia?” because everyone already knows that Wikipedia is CC; instead, they just mention Wikipedia without mentioning it’s free.
ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Good points! Although I feel like I may be out of the loop on some of the discussion/mention of archive.org stuff, which likely speaks to me being out of it more broadly regarding discussions of other related materials.
adespoton@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
There’s also plenty of discussion of public libraries, but since they’re all independent of each other, it’s not a unified discussion. Nobody online is going to recommend their local library to a random person from who knows where.