I think you might have missed an element. For the book example, I made an edit to my post that tries to clear that up: it's not about selling it for someone else to consume, it's more about selling it to multiple publishing systems. As on Steemit, you do not pay to read a post in the same way you would pay to read a book. For software development, you don't sell the print function you use to someone else, you sell whatever product you built, and that may include open source libraries, but the open source libraries are not what you're selling: you're selling the specific pieces that you wrote.
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p.s. I gave you my first witness vote ever. I really didn't understand that whole thing because I'm new, but I think you do a lot to improve the platform, plus you took time to reply to me. :)
Same here. You're the kind of person I want witnessing.
Right, and I totally agree with your core topic. I guess that's why your original and well-thought-out post did so well. When I write for clients, we do have a plagiarism checker to keep us from even accidentally reusing our words or anybody else's words. Re-using ideas is a bit tougher to police and maybe impossible to avoid sometimes. I was just thinking out loud a bit, and I appreciate you coming by to clarify.