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What do you mean? They should pay up and submit to extortion and the whims of one guy?

They have 0 duty to do anything for WP. And thats also how WP got big. If everyone had to contrbute back, would the ecosystem be so big and WP be used everywhere? I doubt it.



> They should pay up and submit to extortion and the whims of one guy

Not necessarily, just saying that "extract only, never give back" has some inherent risk as a strategy. It could piss people off or it could dry up the well.




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