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An abridged list of organizations using Kenneth Reitz's python requests package: Her Majesty’s Government, Amazon, Google, Twilio, Mozilla, Heroku, PayPa

by jmduke 13y ago

An abridged list of organizations using Kenneth Reitz's python requests package: Her Majesty’s Government, Amazon, Google, Twilio, Mozilla, Heroku, PayPal, NPR, Obama for America, Transifex, Native Instruments, The Washington Post, Twitter, SoundCloud, Kippt, Readability, and Federal US Institutions. People generate millions of dollars of value through open source software. It's only fair that the people making that software are incentivized to keep doing so.

daenz 13y ago
> It's only fair that the people making that software are incentivized to keep doing so. Give me a break. The incentives that coaxed popular open source authors to create their projects in the first place is still there. If people feel compelled to give money for something that was designed to be free, that's great. But I've yet to see anything that suggests that people will stop making OSS if they aren't given $50 a week.
- shurcooL 13y ago
  It's not about them not working on OSS if they don't get money for it. It's about them being able to work on OSS 30+ hours a week instead of 8 hrs a week if you (and many others) give 'em a few bucks a week.
jlarocco 13y ago
I really hate the implication that end users are obligated to pay or "tip" open source developers. How can a software developer be butthurt that he didn't make money off his product when it's his own fault for giving it away for free? Every organization you listed would have gladly paid money for the requests package, had the author not chosen to give it away for free. Just like they paid for MS Office, Windows, Photoshop, Oracle, and countless other software products. It's almost embarrassing that there are software developers so clueless that they'd give their product away and then whine about how they need money and deserve to get paid. Not that I'm implying that's happening here. It's so silly that open source advocates will demonize Oracle, Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, ... for making money off their software, then turn around and whine that they're not making money. Who's fault is that? Nobody forced them to opt out of the economic system. I release a lot of my code as open source under a very permissive license. It's perfectly clear to me that anybody can take my code and use it to make a ton of money and not owe me a dime. If I weren't okay with that, I wouldn't release the code.
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by jmduke 13y ago

daenz 13y ago

> It's only fair that the people making that software are incentivized to keep doing so. Give me a break. The incentives that coaxed popular open source authors to create their projects in the first place is still there. If people feel compelled to give money for something that was designed to be free, that's great. But I've yet to see anything that suggests that people will stop making OSS if they aren't given $50 a week.

shurcooL 13y ago
It's not about them not working on OSS if they don't get money for it. It's about them being able to work on OSS 30+ hours a week instead of 8 hrs a week if you (and many others) give 'em a few bucks a week.

jlarocco 13y ago

I really hate the implication that end users are obligated to pay or "tip" open source developers. How can a software developer be butthurt that he didn't make money off his product when it's his own fault for giving it away for free? Every organization you listed would have gladly paid money for the requests package, had the author not chosen to give it away for free. Just like they paid for MS Office, Windows, Photoshop, Oracle, and countless other software products. It's almost embarrassing that there are software developers so clueless that they'd give their product away and then whine about how they need money and deserve to get paid. Not that I'm implying that's happening here. It's so silly that open source advocates will demonize Oracle, Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, ... for making money off their software, then turn around and whine that they're not making money. Who's fault is that? Nobody forced them to opt out of the economic system. I release a lot of my code as open source under a very permissive license. It's perfectly clear to me that anybody can take my code and use it to make a ton of money and not owe me a dime. If I weren't okay with that, I wouldn't release the code.

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