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This is literally the point of a lot of open source software... Sometimes its "hey i wrote this for me, here it is incase you stumble across it and find it use
by sophacles 3y ago
This is literally the point of a lot of open source software... Sometimes its "hey i wrote this for me, here it is incase you stumble across it and find it useful". Sometimes it's "hey here's this thing i did that i find cool, y'all wanna work with me to improve it?". Sometimes its "look what I can do here's the code you can too!". Sometimes its even "Do you all think this approach has promise?".
In fact very few open source projects are big and professional like Linux. Most are just things people do out of interest or fun.
- James_K 3y agoI have nothing against people who simply leave their stuff open to the public in case it might be useful. My issue is that a lot of this stuff is presented as something you should use when it really isn't fit for that. I've wasted a good deal of time on such projects, using them for a while before I realise they aren't fit for purpose.