A few years old now, but still worth checking out:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Cost_of_Free_Parking

For those unaware, this is the dialogue/caption in Tom Toro's 2012 New Yorker cartoon:

* https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995

* https://tomtoro.com/cartoons/

* https://condenaststore.com/featured/the-planet-got-destroyed...

> Maybe there's 3rd party code which SGI/HPE licensed?

IIRC, this was one of the complication of open sourcing Solaris back in the day.

> It's incredible that about 80% of people in this thread seem to be commenting without having looked at the website.

Are you new to the Internet? This has been a thing since (at least) Slashdot. :)

> Humans are psychologically incapable of assigning respect to things that are free

I know a few people who had to make use of food banks and were grateful at the time for the donations of others. They now try to donate what they can as payback.