This was my biggest question. And changed my mind from “kind of neat hack” to “wtf, is the point to just trick people into doing things an expensive way.”
I can’t help but be happy that we didn’t have the 4 Hour Workweek way back when or wget’s author would be trying to charge $7.22/month or $62/year for the amazing capability to scrape web sites. Or every gnu util author would be trying to get $4/month (ie, we’d never have gnu utils).
This was my biggest question. And changed my mind from “kind of neat hack” to “wtf, is the point to just trick people into doing things an expensive way.”
I can’t help but be happy that we didn’t have the 4 Hour Workweek way back when or wget’s author would be trying to charge $7.22/month or $62/year for the amazing capability to scrape web sites. Or every gnu util author would be trying to get $4/month (ie, we’d never have gnu utils).