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> Don't be fooled, somebody else will benefit from your work. It's either hilarious or depressing to me that you say that like it's a BAD thing, when the entir
by FeRDNYC 1y ago
> Don't be fooled, somebody else will benefit from your work.
It's either hilarious or depressing to me that you say that like it's a BAD thing, when the entire point of open-sourcing code is so that EVERYONE benefits from your work. Just as I've benefited from countless open-source codebases over the decades.
Is it possible someone will use my open-source code in a product that makes them a lot of money? Of course.
Is that a bad thing? Why would it be?
Does it mean they owe me a cut of the profits? Of course not. I didn't have anything to do with their product.
And I'm 50 years old and have been coding since my teens, so save your predictions that I just haven't woken up to reality yet. Not everyone is a libertarian cynic.
- owebmaster 1y ago> And I'm 50 years old and have been coding since my teens, so save your predictions that I just haven't woken up to reality yet. Not everyone is a libertarian cynic. Not everybody is a 50 years old cynic, too. Young people need to make money and the coding gigs aren't looking as promising as when you were in your teens. Working for free (even worse, for the benefit of VC-funded companies) is not in the best interest of most software engineers nowadays, unfortunately.