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by rchaud 2323 days ago
It's free, so what do you expect?

If you were at the mall and picked up a pamphlet about say, philosophy from someone handing them out at the food court, would you complain that it didn't have the same depth as something you'd find at a bookstore?

We've accustomed ourselves to believing that collections of words should be free if they're on the Internet, when that has almost never been true in the real world.