1% preferential access outweighs the cost of helping others
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Isn't this very similar to a lot of (differently modelled) business propositions backing OSS?
However, when most of the yeast are cooperating, it becomes advantageous for some individuals to cheat, and vice versa, which allows co-existence between cheaters and cooperators to arise.
It also means we're kind of stuck with the patent trolls.