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> the issue is that they also want the benefit of not being ignored So in order to get any interest in your project, you have to be open source (and align with
by rglover 3y ago
> the issue is that they also want the benefit of not being ignored
So in order to get any interest in your project, you have to be open source (and align with the ideology absolutely)?
- hnoyrnndd 3y agoI don’t think this was intended to be a normative statement. Just an observation that “open source as marketing” seems to work, so people use it despite it not actually being true of their project.
- zem 3y agoyou don't have to; you could seek interest among fans of proprietary software instead, using whatever marketing techniques work there. apple has had a fair amount of success with that approach e.g.
- Spivak 3y agoIn order to get interest in your product among people who believe in the mission of OSS, you do actually have to be OSS. I could agree if we were talking about something unrelated that OSS folks also happen to like but yeah, your product does have to not have meat if you want buy-in from vegetarians.