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> "the most precious commodity of all, developer mindshare" Reading the above reminds me of a not too long ago news story, titled "An Influencer With 2 Million
by ThrowawayR2 6y ago
> "the most precious commodity of all, developer mindshare"
Reading the above reminds me of a not too long ago news story, titled "An Influencer With 2 Million Followers Couldn't Sell 36 T-Shirts":
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/a27623334/influencer-arii-36-shirts-2-million-followers/ https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/a27623334/...
- ignoramous 6y agoIf we are cherrypicking examples, here's one from the time when Cisco reluctantly opensourced a router's firmware because GPL, "Linksys continues to earn millions of dollars per year selling an 11-year-old product without ever changing its specs or design... That product really is what made the company." https://thenewstack.io/the-open-source-lesson-of-the-linksys-wrt54g-router/ https://thenewstack.io/the-open-source-lesson-of-the-linksys...