Ultimatelly it’s “Doing Research that advances knowledge for everybody” that should be allowed free use of copyrighted materials, whils activities for direct or indirect commercial gains (included Research whose results are Patented and then licensed for a fee) should not, IMHO.

If your business model only works if you break the Law, that mean’s you’re just another Organised Crime group.

(What’s funny is that I went for writing an actual reply and did not downvote).

I think AugustWest’s point kinda got proven just now.

That’s indeed a natural conclusion about the kind of person who writes a post like that, but I didn’t want to rule out other explanations such as drug consumption or stupidity.

An alternative explanation is that the trolling style of your post is attracting downvotes.

The version, with the ox is from Portugal. Specifically the Portuguese saying literally translates as “put the cart in front of the oxen” (so we use plural oxen rather than horse).

I once had a customly designed project for an external client of a web-development company were I was technical lead and the sales guy who sold it to the customer without ever consulting us about it had the project management responsability.

On the very first day the guy got me, the junior developer and the designer together for the project launch meeting and started saying how we would have to work extra to make it fit his (ridiculously short) deadlines and I just said “No, it’s not at all possible to fullfill those deadlines so that’s not going to happen” and when he tried to argue with “what about the client” I replied that “You came up with those estimates and gave them to the client without even talking to us, the experts in that domain, so managing the fallout with the client from that is your problem not ours”.

I fondly remember all that because of the transition from downtrodden and unhappy to absolute happiness visible on the face of the junior developer when, after the sales guy / project manager gave us the “work extra hard” spiel I (as the tech lead) replied with “No, that’s not going to happen”.

(Ultimatelly the project took twice as long as the sales guy’s estimates)

The whole “putting the cart in front of the oxen” (as we say in my country) of this meme reminded me of that one (and that memory invariably puts a smile on my face).