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Given everything he says, why does he bother to keep it open-source at all?
by drfuchs 7y ago
Given everything he says, why does he bother to keep it open-source at all?
- jsty 7y agoGiven the quote "I don't have time to review any outside code contributions or GitHub pull requests. Feel free to fork the code." I'd hazard a guess he's fine with people building atop his work, just doesn't want the time-sink of reviewing + merging those contributions into his tree and maintaining them. As he states others have indeed done so and built research projects atop it, it would seem to be worth keeping open source.
- anonytrary 7y agoThere is still value in unmaintained work. As a somewhat exaggerated example, look at academia: researchers build upon each other's work all the time, arguably more often than they build upon their own work. We don't want a world where people stop publishing work just because other people expect them to continue working on it.