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> they derive some perceived benefit (not necessarily money) from their action, like reputation or self-satisfaction or warm fuzzies You forgot what is perhaps
by cesarb 7y ago
> they derive some perceived benefit (not necessarily money) from their action, like reputation or self-satisfaction or warm fuzzies
You forgot what is perhaps the most important one: using the resulting software. For instance, when Linus wrote git, it was because he wanted a source control system with certain characteristics for himself to use.
- reaperducer 7y agoThat appears to be how we got rsync. From the rsync man page: EXAMPLES Here are some examples of how I use rsync. To backup my wife's home directory, which consists of large MS Word files and mail folders, I use a cron job that runs rsync -Cavz . arvidsjaur:backup each night over a PPP connection to a duplicate directory on my machine "arvidsjaur".
- gravitas 7y agorsync was co-developed for his PhD dissertation - Google "rsync phd thesis" real quick to get an overview.