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people who work in trading or finance would never write open source code. Why should we compare our profession with them?

• ClumsyPilot 4y ago
  Who should we compare outselves to? Can't be doctors - they risk deadly infection to save a life. Lets not get carried away thinking we are specially noble.
  • pelasaco 4y ago
    > Lets not get carried away thinking we are specially noble. The guy in Nebraska maintaining one of key dependencies of your project thanklessly disagrees[1]. Well, we build stuff. we praise the knowledge. We were called geeks, hackers, etc. I can just compare software engineering with science like math, * engineering, physics. Finance market as put by the other contributor, is just what we are not, and why Linux exists, why FOSS exists, why internet exists and services like github, trello, gmail exists (even though you want to scream at me, they are there for profit, they were all created with one goal in common: Collaborate openly with others). Egoist finance sharks aren't example of success, virtue and happy life, no matter what. [1] https://xkcd.com/2347/ https://xkcd.com/2347/
    • ClumsyPilot 4y ago
      What is the conclusion we should reach then -> engineers are unnecessarily noble and should not allow themselves to be exploited?
      • pelasaco 4y ago
        > What is the conclusion we should reach then -> engineers are unnecessarily noble and should not allow themselves to be exploited? That's not the conclusion, unless you think that Class Warfare plays a role anywhere. I don't.