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If you ever used any F/OSS software, or made use of a blog post when solving some problem, you owe to the community a blog or something similar. That can be an
by gkya 8y ago
If you ever used any F/OSS software, or made use of a blog post when solving some problem, you owe to the community a blog or something similar. That can be answering SE questions etc. occasionally or an anonymous blog, not contributing knowledge to the community that saves you many years of work every day is outright selfish.
Furhtermore, I don't see what makes self marketing a bad thing given it is of the honest kind. The CV you send to them in order to get the interview is self marketing too, and so are thw clean clothes you wore to that occasion.
I cant count how many times a random blog post has saved me blinking weeks. You are being very rude with that statement.
- collyw 8y ago> You are being very rude with that statement. If you want to write a blog by all means do so. I have written a handful of blog posts but I don't have the time / motivation to do that in my spare time on a regular basis. I think its silly to assume that all software engineers want to and are good at writing blog posts. Could you explain what is rude about that? > you owe to the community a blog or something similar Do I? Maybe that should be put in the terms and conditions if that is the case. I have a decent score on Stack Overflow from answering questions (~379k people reached apparently), is that good enough for you?
- gkya 8y agoI'm not going to answer the second part, but for the rudeness, you are being rude because you reduce blogging about one's experiences w/ programming and related stuff to self marketing.
- collyw 8y agoYou did that. I didn't specify any type of blog. Blogs are more often than not about self marketing. Any why don't you want to answer the second part?
- gkya 8y ago> Any why don't you want to answer the second part? Because I think the answer is obvious. BTW I did not see the Stack Owerflow part, that is the exact kind of compensation for tge greater community I was talking about. Thank you for that. For the other paragraph, well, that's how I read you comment in its context, and I maintain my interpretation. Maybe I'm misunderstanding.
- collyw 8y agoI answer Stack Overflow out of mainly self interest. I don't have a portfolio of work to show people at job interviews - my work is mainly in house. I realized it isn't that hard to get a decent score on SO if you know something well. Also because it annoys me seeing things done poorly having worked in enough maintenance programming jobs and worked with crap that could have been done so much better (this is probably a bigger motivation with certain topics). I don't do it because I feel I owe anyone anything. It does feel good to contribute somewhat, but that is far from my primary motivation.
- jhall1468 8y agoNobody owes you anything. He gets to have whatever perspective he wants and it's not rude because you disagree with it. You need to take a step back and pretend for a moment that your perspective isn't the only one.
- gkya 8y agoNobody owes me anything but eaach and every on of us owe something to the FOSS community.
- jhall1468 8y agoNo, we don't. The FOSS community operates on the idea that people that want to contribute to it (financially, programming, etc) can do so. Nothing about open source obligates that behavior, outside of certain licenses. Nobody "owes" FOSS anything either, that's up to them.
- gkya 8y agoIt is really shocking people can think this way when also making use of hundreds of people's free labour, and when the very existence of most of programming careers are a direct product of OSS innovation. Hopefuly this attitude is not the widespread one.