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Given you stopped reading at that point, you entirely missed the point of the article: that open source _is not_ just about code and yet non-code contributions

• crikli 10y ago
  I didn't stop reading, I checked out on her argument. What the author was saying was compelling up to the point she admitted she couldn't code. Non-code contributions have value, however if you don't have the engineering understanding to grasp the full context of a project your perspective likely isn't going to be taken seriously. With all of the resources available now to learn to code, I just don't have any sympathy for her. At all. She doesn't need to be contributing to every project in order to have an opinion worth considering, she just needs to be able to demonstrate some level of development chops.
  • nebabyte 9y ago
    > I didn't stop reading, I checked out on her argument. Then if you had spent the time required to belittle the author on lack of coding ability to address the very valid commentary provided on communal work... Shazam, you'd have gotten your point across to proaralyst. Maybe a few less condescending chidings and nostalgic recountings of 'your youth in the 80s' and a few quotations to counterargue (don't scoff, that's what many people do in discussion)? Stop talking about 'checking out' of useful discourse and start having it. The resources to do so have never been more readily available. :)