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Comment by articulatepang

All your examples are private goods: excludable and rival. If one person uses a unit, that prevents others from using them.

Patches to open source software are public goods. Your using them doesn’t prevent others from using them. So if you spend resources creating a public good, it’s in everyone’s interest to share it.

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