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Owning a popular open source project is obviously valuable. If you're capable of it, do that. The rest is excuses.
by dustingetz 13y ago
Owning a popular open source project is obviously valuable. If you're capable of it, do that. The rest is excuses.
- mattgreenrocks 13y agoOpen source is not the meritocracy many think it is. Let's say you one-upped AngularJS with a new library. How would you compete with that sort of marketing muscle? Devs are no different from regular people: they don't want to change, they'll be averse to re-learning things, and they'll downgrade you for not being backed by Google.