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You can’t reinvent this stuff over and over again and ignore that at the end of the day there are people who use this stuff to make money. Another way to say t
by danr4 5y ago
You can’t reinvent this stuff over and over again and ignore that at the end of the day there are people who use this stuff to make money.
Another way to say that: You can't build new awesome free stuff because other people already use your old awesome free stuff to make money.
Sounds ridiculous.
They can and should keep making new stuff, for the next generation of people and apps, whether to use it or not is an individual/organizational choice.
- andrewmcwatters 5y agoIf I told you I’m giving you an annual $600,000 budget to build a small team and write software, and you chose Deno and had to reinvent JavaScript libraries that already existed for years, I’d fire you for being negligent with funds. What you’re saying sounds ridiculous.
- DonHopkins 5y agoGood thing the MIT AI Lab couldn't fire RMS for being negligent about not continuing to maintain TECO Emacs, which so many people were using every day all over the ARPANET for years, and going on to learn from its mistakes and making Gnu Emacs with LISP implemented in C instead of TECO implemented in PDP-10 assembly. Or are you still using WordStar on CP/M, so you don't care about all that progress stuff?