[tomcam]

Not exaggerating when I say your math teacher is one of the most enlightened I ever heard of. Fantastic story.

[ta1243]

Yet you are posting this on stacks and stacks of code written by people who gave their work away

[seanw444]

The difference is they just wanted the end result, and didn't care about the source code or how the implementation worked. Just a means to an end. People pay for that willingly.

[recursive]

The math teacher didn't say "never use free stuff".

[actionfromafar]

On a money-making-machine-social-network, you mean.

[ta1243]

Linux?

Nginx/apache/whatever?

libc?

Firefox?

[actionfromafar]

HN

[saalweachter]

Math teacher next week: "Now where's my cut?"