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by serf 1033 days ago
The patrons of creative commons are by no means free loaders, and that concept being injected belittles a lot of the point.

>Do you hate Wikipedia's politics...

That's exactly the point, how would they know? What if they know they dislike the politics but wish to continue to support infra costs and the like because of the real value Wikipedia offers the world? No option.

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False; there are plenty of opportunities for him to contribute. He could be an editor. He could write and run bots. He could design and build tools that run on WMF's cloud platform. He could help develop the MediaWiki software itself. Myriad opportunities to contribute to a free project.