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Your original comment is pretty toxic. What do you want to imply by your original anecdotal comment other than grandstanding? This is a research article, and yo
by tonto 8y ago
Your original comment is pretty toxic. What do you want to imply by your original anecdotal comment other than grandstanding? This is a research article, and you could suggest that the researchers look at more negative aspects of open source that could affect developers but to say basically open source is terrible is ridiculous
- KirinDave 8y agoHow is relating my experiences adjacent to the subject of the article, as someone who has in fact released two rather large open source projects (one with a fair amount of ongoing traction) toxic? Just because it documented experiences that were negative? The responses so far: - It's your fault for doing it (true, but unhelpful). - Maybe you should care (I released the original work, I cared enough) - Even talking about adjacent experiences is inappropriate and and you should stop. (yours)
- nickpsecurity 8y agoIf they're doing research, they'd need the negative reports for accuracy. KirinDave would be one data point among others in that. We know they exist since Nadia Eghbal did collect that information: https://medium.com/@nayafia/how-i-stumbled-upon-the-internet-s-biggest-blind-spot-b9aa23618c58 https://medium.com/@nayafia/how-i-stumbled-upon-the-internet... If anything, people should see the big picture of the range of experiences they might have so they're not being misled into getting into something that's a gamble. It might be good for them, it might be really bad, and it might be something in between. FOSS promoters don't usually sell it that way, though.