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I pay money to a person or company in order to receive a good or service which is defined and negotiated ahead of time.
Someone I don't know making a website I didn't ask for isn't doing anything for me, and doesn't have my agreement or consent.
That's fine as long as they aren't expecting me to pay them for it. Expecting money for actions taken on someone else's behalf without their consent is a scam.
Yes they are, they are hosting a website which you're visting to presumably consume some of the content or use in some way. They dont need your agreement or consent, you are choosing to vist the website. Just to be clear we arent talking about paying websites you dont vist. We are specifically talking about websites like a blog
I'm talking about random websites that people visit to see what they are, as one does.
Making a blog and thinking that people owe you money to be on the receiving end of your unasked-for opinions/advice is ridiculous. You can talk to people around you and get that for free.
And there's even less reason to pay a company that you have an existing business relationship with to access their website, since you're paying them already.
You've got to be trolling, there is no way you actually think this. I'm done with this bait.
I feel equally surprised that you feel the way you do. I've never met anyone with your opinions before, and they seem very extreme. We're living very different lives, I guess.
This is the whole FOSS free as in freedom not beer argument. but you're aruging its free as in beer.
I'm arguing that the responsibility to pay a cost should fall on the person who makes the decision to incur the cost.
no you arent you are arguing that the person making the content should incur all the cost, make zero money and provide it free of charge to everyone. Im done trying to explain the concept of paying someone for their work to a brick wall.
My neighbor makes chainsaw bears out in his driveway. They're visible from the road, so I can see them when I drive by. They're nice bears. I enjoy seeing what he's working on. But if he came out one day and told me I owed him money for looking at his bears, I'd think he was crazy.
They aren't my bears, and the decision to craft them in an area open to public view was his own.
That's what other people's websites are like, to me.
You obviously see things differently. I'm sure the people whose websites you visit appreciate that. I mean that sincerely.