Originally Posted by Vyper
No ones saying "make WM pay!" They are just saying "We won't/can't pay from WM". It's interesting you bring up newspapers though, because that is actually an excellent analogy. Look at it this way, WoWI is the New York Times, but nicer. They distribute a weekly newspaper, which all can submit content to. Of course, paper isn't free, so they have to buy it. They recoup this space by selling advertising space in their paper, this way, they can give it away free. Along comes WoWMatrix. It also wants to distribute the news. So it steals a bunch of WoWI's paper, prints the stuff that the community has submitted to WoWI on it (but organizes it better), but replaces WoWIs adds with it's own, and gives nothing back to WoWI. Go figure, this paper theft is a major drain on WoWI's resources, and they hire a security guard to stop the paper theft.
Now the WoWMatrix users are angry because WoWI's security guard is stopping WoWMatrix from stealing paper and printing their (better organized paper), stubbornly refusing to recognize that, at the rate things were going WoWI would be unable to buy paper for themselves or WoWMatrix, ending the show for everybody.
That's because they were taking addons with no-redistribution clauses. If they had stuck to addons whose licenses allow for redistribution (e.g. GPL/BSD), it would not have been a problem.
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By far, the best analogy I've seen yet... and I hate analogies.
