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> Imo, OSS advocates really really want open source contributions to be used as hiring signal, because that would mean more open source developers. That is what
by spamizbad 8y ago
> Imo, OSS advocates really really want open source contributions to be used as hiring signal, because that would mean more open source developers. That is what this all is about, primary. Wish to come back to "open source developers are superior, because reasons" ideology that was pushed for during open/close source wars.
That's a new take. As someone who lived through that "war" in the 90s, the typical refrain from the "closed source" crowd was that open source developers were merely hobbyists, whereas closed source was built 100% by professional software developers.
- watwut 8y agoMaybe it depends on who did you socialized with? Among people I knew it was universally "close source programmers are crap, oss are all geniuses". I also remember reading thinkpieces like that from people like Stallman (I think). A lot of heroization of programmers vs unethical managers too. I remember the thing you said too, but only in context of "it is obviously stupid" and obvious manipulation from evil Microsoft. I still think that part was true (that it was manipulation from MS who was remarkably unethical in this war).