I wholeheartedly disagree with your underlying premise of what open source is or should be. It's not a job. It's not a résumé. It's not a damn lifestyle or a

I wholeheartedly disagree with your underlying premise of what open source is or should be. It's not a job. It's not a résumé. It's not a damn lifestyle or an in-group to define yourself through. It's a way of saying "I wrote this. I allow you to look at it and use it for yourself, if you like". Nothing more, nothing less. > randoms from around the globe should keep their leftpads for themselves and their friends. That seems like a bizarre inversion of responsibility to me. Randoms can publish whatever they please; if you use their left-pad, that's on you and you alone.