>Just because someone is smart doesn't mean they don't act like a self-righteous jerk that's convinced they're superior to everyone as well as convinced everyone else is somehow a worthless evil person that deserves to rot in hell. How you disagree with me with all the evidence of his posts with these type of offending tactics is beyond me. The dude can't even express a rational thought about SW Fox event without being sure to let everyone know he thinks the organizers and presenters are all self centered evil do-ers because they don't do it for free and then babbling on about how we're all going to hell cause waaah waaah waaah. Frankly I'm sick of the crap and yeah there is a religion section but guess what it's not helping enough because here we are AGAIN and guess what all this bullcrap is being caused by ONE PERSON.

To be more precise, Rick does not criticize the presenters of SW Fox that they don't do it for free, his argument was is that after the conference they should make the material available for free for those who could not afford to partake at the conference or were not aware of the conference and therefore missed it. Part of that idea is that the material after the conference should not be used anymore to produce more income since it has already served its purpose.

I think the only flaw of his thought is that if the material would be freely available after the conference, it would lead some people not to attend the conference at all, waiting for the information to get released later. Similar as bit-torrents keep some people of visiting the cinema and watching the movie for free instead.

On the other side, as many have brought up in this context, most people attend the conference to make personal contacts and to have some kind of direct interaction, networking, and fun. Similar as bit torrent pirates still visit the cinema because the screen is much bigger after all, and the movies they download they would not have watched anyway otherwise.

He brought up some very thoughtful argumentation and even if I don't agree with everything, I think he does have some points. Perhaps you don't like some of personal reasoning but you are not obligated to like it, and nobody puts a gun at your head to read all his posts.