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I'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

by gkya 8y ago

I'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 ago
You 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 ago
    I 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 ago
Nobody 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 ago
  Nobody owes me anything but eaach and every on of us owe something to the FOSS community.
  - jhall1468 8y ago
    No, 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 ago
      It 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.
      - collyw 8y ago
        Plenty of people get paid to work on OSS. I imagine that Linus is pretty well compensated.
      - jhall1468 8y ago
        Those people are volunteering their time. I'm one of them. But that doesn't mean owed something as a result, that's absurd. I made OSS because I wanted to.

by gkya 8y ago

I'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 ago

You 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 ago
  I 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 ago

Nobody 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 ago
Nobody owes me anything but eaach and every on of us owe something to the FOSS community.
- jhall1468 8y ago
  No, 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 ago
    It 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.
    - collyw 8y ago
      Plenty of people get paid to work on OSS. I imagine that Linus is pretty well compensated.
    - jhall1468 8y ago
      Those people are volunteering their time. I'm one of them. But that doesn't mean owed something as a result, that's absurd. I made OSS because I wanted to.