▲ | chowells 6 days ago | |||||||
This is a very business-centric viewpoint. I publish a small number of open-source libraries. They are not a business. I have no interest in making them a business. In fact, the idea of making them a business is repellent. They're just code for doing some tasks more easily than starting from scratch. I made some of them because I needed them, and had no reason to own them. I made some because I thought another library was poorly designed and I could demonstrate a better way. I didn't make any because I wanted money or recognition. I don't care who uses them, or how. It is literally impossible for a user to do anything with any of them that harms me. I am deeply suspicious of any world view that declares it bad when people use code I have released for free. I released it so people would use it. Good for them! | ||||||||
▲ | echelon 6 days ago | parent [-] | |||||||
To be clear: I am not talking this kind of open source. Rather, full-time commitment to software of scale. Software that does have business use cases. Software where outages can cost money. | ||||||||
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