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> Boston was particularly bad about “what’s in it for me?” being the common theme of any conversation. I'm really surprised to hear that said of the city where
by ocschwar 8y ago
> Boston was particularly bad about “what’s in it for me?” being the common theme of any conversation.
I'm really surprised to hear that said of the city where RMS wrote GNU while living in his car. Not my experience there at all.
- epistasis 8y agoThe difference between GPL and BSD-like, to me , is that GPL says "what's in it for me?" Whereas BSD-like is "here you go take this for free, I may or may not got anything back for giving you my contribution."
- sangnoir 8y agoMore like "What's in it for the (end) USER?" What better way is there for a developer to pay it forward than to pass on all the rights they got (freedom to modify and inspect the software) to the end-user?
- jimktrains2 8y agoI don't ask anything from you for me in order to use my gpl software, I ask that you give the same rights and privileges you had to your users. You don't even need to give me your contributions, just your users.
- borski 8y agoThere are pockets. At MIT, as a student, it was definitely very pay-it-forward. But try starting a company in Boston and getting investment, or introductions, or do any sort of networking. It's literally impossible unless you have some way of scratching their back. I have heard this time and time again from founders that moved from Boston to the valley, and I have experienced it firsthand with my company.
- eropple 8y agoAgain I think you're overplaying this. Most of my network has never worked with me and likely would never work for me. But I don't have a particularly hard time getting in touch with anybody I'd like to. (And if anyone who's reading this would like to chat--well, email's in my profile. Don't be shy.)