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> If you give away your work for $0 then the value of your work is $0. I should've been paying my mother market rates. After all, she and my father have been r
by selfhoster11 5y ago
> If you give away your work for $0 then the value of your work is $0.
I should've been paying my mother market rates. After all, she and my father have been running at a loss for this whole "family" enterprise.
IMO, open source is (or should be seen as) more of a "friends and family doing favours for each other" kind of human activity. Some people do it for the sheer joy of it, share without expectation of more than a "thank you" (at max), and calling their work valueless is just crass marketism.
- mbrodersen 5y agoYou are not getting my point. I am reacting to the OSS maintainers that get upset when the intrinsic value of their work doesn't automatically convert to market value ($ in their pockets). My point is to stop blaming the world and instead put a market value on their work for corporations.
- dang 5y agoCan you please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN? You've been it a lot in these threads. I'm afraid it's repetitive and it lowers the quality of the discussion. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- wpietri 5y agoThanks. My apologies for taking the bait.
- mbrodersen 5y agoI am surprised you would see my comments as engaging in a flamewar dang. If you look at my comment history it should be clear that I in general don’t do that. Perhaps also take into consideration the many upvotes my comments have received. However I acknowledge that I might have been a bit more snarky in my comments than was strictly necessary to get my point across.