"I took the picture because I like taking pictures. I've invested into a lot of money into camera gear over the past 27 years or so and never made a dime from it. On the other hand, it has given me a lot of joy and pride. The joy to take beautiful pictures."
The author is an amateur photographer, he shares his work and people enjoy it. That's great.
There are also quite a few developers who contribute to open source projects. That doesn't mean that they or others can't ever charge for programming work or software products.
Some photographers license all of their work to the public domain, most professional photographers don't. I don't feel there's shame in that. People need to respect and adhere to the license a work is published in. The fact that you had to download a picture in your browser to view it doesn't mean you have the right to republish it.
"I took the picture because I like taking pictures. I've invested into a lot of money into camera gear over the past 27 years or so and never made a dime from it. On the other hand, it has given me a lot of joy and pride. The joy to take beautiful pictures."
The author is an amateur photographer, he shares his work and people enjoy it. That's great.
There are also quite a few developers who contribute to open source projects. That doesn't mean that they or others can't ever charge for programming work or software products.
Some photographers license all of their work to the public domain, most professional photographers don't. I don't feel there's shame in that. People need to respect and adhere to the license a work is published in. The fact that you had to download a picture in your browser to view it doesn't mean you have the right to republish it.