> Then, should we stop writing good code because some shitheads set a bad example? No, I'm saying that we should write great code, and not open source any of i

> Then, should we stop writing good code because some shitheads set a bad example? No, I'm saying that we should write great code, and not open source any of it. I don't understand why the concept is so unpopular? > It's not like anyone says "He is Indian, his contribution is probably worthless" about Sanjay Ghemawat or Vikram Adve, right? Absolutely not. But I think that today, if Ghemawat made a typo fix contribution to 10 random projects for Hacktoberfest, at least one of those project maintainers who didn't know about him would be yelling about "spam". I'm not sure how to prove this; maybe someone who knows him can ask him to try? :) This is HN after all. Also, since you bring it up, I'm guessing that the vast majority of Sanjay's code at Google is proprietary and not available to the world.