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As long as the author can keep his hands from injecting "Sponsored-By" headers into my responses, I'd call it a win.

by therein 7y ago

pjmlp 7y ago
Depends, are you willing to actually pay in some form for using it? Donations, books, patreon, pull requests.
- geodel 7y ago
  A lot of devs really feel open source software can be written for free while they themselves need to be paid top dollars. And we can see this outrage for large projects as well where people constantly rail against Oracle as if OpenJDK just get developed without millions in cost to Oracle. Or outrage against Go because Google put a small logo on Go website. There are so many other examples with same pattern. So these devs crib on little amount of money to OSS devs but big time supporters must not put any ad at all.
  - kirse 7y ago
    A lot of devs really feel open source software can be written for free while they themselves need to be paid top dollars. Of course we need to be paid top dollar. We donate our (finite) time and mental resources at the cost of family life, etc. to integrate and master 9 Javascript libraries, 8 messaging formats, 7 architectural patterns, 6 programming languages, 5 package managers, 4 cloud platforms, 3 operating systems, 2 caching tools, and 1 HTTP server to power it all. Along the way, the creators of quality OSS benefit from the popularity of having thousands of adherents donating their collective millions of hours and trillions of neurons learning their software packages and providing fixes, ideas, and polishing to their product. And once the users have all 45 of those tools successfully integrated over years of effort and lessons learned, along comes an OSS creator who writes the newest 9 Javascript libraries...
herohamp 7y ago
I would happily accept sponsored by headers if it meant free commercial use of caddy
- therein 7y ago
  Even if it looks like this? > Caddy-Sponsors: This free web server is made possible by its sponsors: Minio, Uptime Robot, and Sourcegraph https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/pull/1866 https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/pull/1866
  - porker 7y ago
    Yep. So long as they had an agreed max-size of the header, as I don't want to have kilobytes of text added. And an ethical ads policy. "Brought to you by $Hate_Speech_Provider" would be a bummer.
  - geodel 7y ago
    What's wrong with this header?
    - therein 7y ago
      That PR describes what's wrong pretty thoroughly, some went for the rest of the community's response. Therefore they backed down.

As long as the author can keep his hands from injecting "Sponsored-By" headers into my responses, I'd call it a win.

pjmlp 7y ago

Depends, are you willing to actually pay in some form for using it? Donations, books, patreon, pull requests.

geodel 7y ago
A lot of devs really feel open source software can be written for free while they themselves need to be paid top dollars. And we can see this outrage for large projects as well where people constantly rail against Oracle as if OpenJDK just get developed without millions in cost to Oracle. Or outrage against Go because Google put a small logo on Go website. There are so many other examples with same pattern. So these devs crib on little amount of money to OSS devs but big time supporters must not put any ad at all.
- kirse 7y ago
  A lot of devs really feel open source software can be written for free while they themselves need to be paid top dollars. Of course we need to be paid top dollar. We donate our (finite) time and mental resources at the cost of family life, etc. to integrate and master 9 Javascript libraries, 8 messaging formats, 7 architectural patterns, 6 programming languages, 5 package managers, 4 cloud platforms, 3 operating systems, 2 caching tools, and 1 HTTP server to power it all. Along the way, the creators of quality OSS benefit from the popularity of having thousands of adherents donating their collective millions of hours and trillions of neurons learning their software packages and providing fixes, ideas, and polishing to their product. And once the users have all 45 of those tools successfully integrated over years of effort and lessons learned, along comes an OSS creator who writes the newest 9 Javascript libraries...

herohamp 7y ago

I would happily accept sponsored by headers if it meant free commercial use of caddy

therein 7y ago
Even if it looks like this? > Caddy-Sponsors: This free web server is made possible by its sponsors: Minio, Uptime Robot, and Sourcegraph https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/pull/1866 https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/pull/1866
- porker 7y ago
  Yep. So long as they had an agreed max-size of the header, as I don't want to have kilobytes of text added. And an ethical ads policy. "Brought to you by $Hate_Speech_Provider" would be a bummer.
- geodel 7y ago
  What's wrong with this header?
  - therein 7y ago
    That PR describes what's wrong pretty thoroughly, some went for the rest of the community's response. Therefore they backed down.