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Your code is worth much, just like ideaguy/gal's idea, unless
... some one is willing to pay you for using it. I think this should be a corollary of ideas are worth nothing.
- sharemywin 8y agoI'm sure I'm going to get down voted for this because you don't want to hear it, and it plays with your world view. I written a ton of code for side projects and never made money from the projects, ie my code isn't worth much.
- nibsfour 8y agoNo one would write a bunch of essays on their personal website and expect money to materialize without distribution. Business is about distribution, code can be a valuable, positive-sum product, but you can't skip distribution.
- is_true 8y agoA guy started selling a widget I did to learn angularjs, he just inserted the widget in an iframe and charged for it. He was in touch with people willing to pay, and that is valuable.
- sharemywin 8y agonot saying there aren't exceptions.
- lastofus 8y agoTo generalize, any singular component of a business is relatively worthless, unless there exists a functional business to plug it into.