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by AtomBalm 457 days ago
Mathematicians aren’t expected to be paid royalties when someone uses their discoveries.

Paying to lease a server or for access it, sure, but software itself? It’s nonsense.

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If a mathematician’s discovery has commercial applications (for example in creating arbitrage for trading, or breaking cryptography, or increasing security), then they can choose to keep it to themselves and commercialize it.