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I love this developer dissonance where they work at companies selling software, but refuse to pay for others’ software. Truly a sight to behold!
by yunohn 4y ago
I love this developer dissonance where they work at companies selling software, but refuse to pay for others’ software.
Truly a sight to behold!
- coldtea 4y agoIt makes sense for an artist creating underground work, and not getting paid for it (e.g. actually illegal graphitti artist, or some avant guarde type that works a different day job and doesn't want to "sell out" to galleries) to be against the commercialization of art. But for programmers living off programming? Less so.
- belltaco 4y agoI know of two director level folks (they were promoted from being devs, but not geeky enough to read HN or dev blogs) who would repeatedly use 'open source' only as a full synonym for 'free of charge' in multiple conversations about tools and paying for them. For example when comparing software, "we need to pay for X but Y is open source".