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His point is that if you end up like that it's because you don't recognize freedom when you see it. Its like that movie when the monkey does not go out of thee
by hjntmp 6y ago
His point is that if you end up like that it's because you don't recognize freedom when you see it. Its like that movie when the monkey does not go out of thee cage even if opened. Because its your project and you can do whatever you want. Its all in your head.
- ZephyrBlu 6y ago> Because its your project and you can do whatever you want. Its all in your head Well yes, you can. But I think most people feel obliged to respond to feedback, and in fact probably want to respond. Perhaps it's different for mature projects, but my personal projects are a source of perpetual disappointment. Too much to do, not enough time.
- hjntmp 6y agoThe beauty of it is that once you craate something and you share it you have already contributed something. I think that what you feel has more to do with your educaction. Like I said it is all in your head and you do that to yourself.
- ZephyrBlu 6y agoContributing "something" isn't that satisfying or fulfilling to me, even though it can undoubtedly be helpful. Perhaps it's just my personality.
- hjntmp 6y agoIn some ways it has to do with the fact that people are educated to have a need for validation from an authority and several other ways of thinking that are completely counterproductive.
- srtjstjsj 6y agoValidation from authority is not counterproductive. People who need zero external validation are at risk of psychotic behavior because they have no grounding.
- hjntmp 6y agoLove, care and a nurturing social structure wihle developing as a child is what keeps a child healthy. What I meant was that self worth is tied with validation from authority. A sense of inadequacy is always fomented and all the other nonsense of the social experiments we call schools.And at some point you need to wake up to the fact that in a way its just a big theater. That's why you have theories like Rousseau's social contract. You need to answer to the question why are we doing this again?
- hjntmp 6y agoYou do that to yourself and of course the system around us is not made to acomodate such freedoms.
- fierarul 6y agoThe again there is no reason any project has to go on forever. Some open source devs assume, often correctly, that money would ease the pain. In other cases just stoping open source work seems the logical choice. After all, there is no need for the world to witness your work. PS: you do have a point that it's all in your head: in many ways open source work is addictive! Time for an Anonymous Open Source Developers group.
- hjntmp 6y agoI think it has to do with the idea of work. Some people associate work with discomfort and feel guilty if they have fun so they transform their projects on uncomfortable work like things.
- fierarul 6y agoEntirely disagree. This is not how a project is transformed but what a project is... But indeed, maybe our common conclusion is that open source is not for everybody and it should have a warning on the box like cigarettes.