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Remember when maintaining a blog was THE way to build your developer brand?
Jeff Atwood's (co-founder of Stack Exchange) Coding Horror comes to mind, and how the teenage me was amazed at how someone got offered such a good job with such an amazing office [0] because of blogging.
The smaller, more intimate internet was truly something else.
It's basically "You didn't lose money because I pirated your product, I had no money to begin with".
I can relate to this, coming from a poor background. I would've never be where I stand today If I didn't have access to the published material on the internet for free.
Also, the prices of scientific papers are atrocious! And that's not even considering the fact that the researchers who wrote the paper and peer reviewed it for free won't receive a penny!
What do you expect from me when even Harvard says It's expensive?