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"people who actually could prove they had done work went to the head of the line." You mean "people who proved they would work for free," right? FWIW, I'm not
by username223 13y ago
"people who actually could prove they had done work went to the head of the line."
You mean "people who proved they would work for free," right? FWIW, I'm not interested in working for your company, but of the code I wrote which has made it to Github, most has been uploaded by people other than me.
- Blahah 13y agoOSS doesn't mean writing for free. A very large chunk of the code on Github was writing on paid time.
- username223 13y agoIt seems like mostly a place where people store config files, mirror code, and dump half-assed work in progress. But would "I wrote this code, and someone posted it on a website" really make someone better than "I wrote this code?"
- pdpi 13y agoNot better, just easier to verify.
- icelancer 13y agoNo, I don't. I have written quite a bit of stuff that I was paid to write that made it to GitHub, FWIW.
- pnathan 13y agoI don't work for free: my libre software work is under the GPL in one form or another. If it's a library, it's LGPL-derived; if it's product, it's AGPL3. Either I get money, or you get to publish your changes to my code so we all benefit. Pick one. =)