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"Give some love to open source devs." It turns out that many users of open source projects (especially libraries and packages) are other developers ! It is ha
by justsaysmthng 10y ago
"Give some love to open source devs."
It turns out that many users of open source projects (especially libraries and packages) are other developers !
It is hard to find a piece of modern software which doesn't depend on some open source libraries. Those libraries might depend on other libraries and so on. Just do an `npm ls --depth=4` in a node-based project to see what a nice tree that is.
Same thing with cocoapods, carthage, rubygems, pip, cargo, leiningen, etc.
In my view, money should follow the project structure - developers should donate part of the money they receive to the project dependencies and the devs of the dependencies should do the same thing, recursively and that's how you really spread the love !
I've started working on a prototype a year ago, but got discouraged after someone showed me that there are literally hundreds of projects trying to 'spread the love' and as a consequence no love is being spread :)... so I kind of gave up on it for now, but still think this is how it should be done.