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To a degree, yes. I only open source work where I expect reciprocal value from other contributions.
by optimiz3 2y ago
To a degree, yes. I only open source work where I expect reciprocal value from other contributions.
- benfortuna 2y agoI think that is antithetical to the idea of Open Source. If you expect contributions then pay a bounty, don't pretend.
- andrepd 2y agoGPL is antithetical to open source? Odd take
- verdverm 2y agoThere is a permissionless (MIT) vs permissioned (GPL) difference that is at the heart of the debate of what society thinks open source should mean
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- optimiz3 2y agoThe bounty is you getting to use my work (shared in good faith no less). Appreciate the charity and don't be a freeloader or you'll get less in the future.
- johannes1234321 2y agoThere is a lot of indirect hardly measurable value one can gain. Going back to the original source: By giving an answer to somebody on a Q&A site, they might be a kid learning and then building solutions I benefit from later, again. Similar with software. And I also consider the total gain of knowledge for our society at large a gain. While my marginal cost form many things is low. And often lower than a cost-benefit calculation. And some Q&A questions strike a nerve and are interesting to me to answer (be it in thinking about the problem or in trying to boiling it down to a good answer), similar to open source. Some programming tasks as fun problems to solve, that's a gain, and then sharing the result cost me nothing.