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I was just wondering why did you do all that without any benefit to yourself.

I have a feeling, anything that you offer for free will be often treated as worthless. Its an problem with us humans, we attach quality with price and we think if something is expensive its of superior quality. Going down this line of argument something that comes for free is always going be treated that way.

It also gives a good indication of how a person would spend his time. If you give away your work for free, how do you expect others to pay up or value your time? And look at this way- If you put up with crap, people will assume you are perfectly OK with crap thrown at you.

Take a tough stance and never climb down from there. At times that's harsh and rude to a lot of people. But ultimately that's the only thing that protects you.






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