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   Robots Learn to tie knots(newscientist.com)

   1 points by thesource 6y ago|0 comments
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   by thesource 6y ago

   I think developers do. Very much so. if they didn't every developer on this thread and this site would have been publishing their best work as open source. We know that is not the case. The people that write open source code are either
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   by thesource 6y ago

   Do people still really care about open source?serious question. I wondered a lot when I saw docker images and shell scripts installers become so popular. It seems that a small percentage do care about the source and invest in investigating
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   by thesource 6y ago

   I would like to add that the exploitation of the community of open source software and their authors must end. If the community _cares_ about the source being free, why are contributions relative to consumption as low as they are?
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   by thesource 6y ago

   And the vast majority of that is built on top of typically well maintained by a small number of people libraries and tooling. Let's not forget, much of the "non-toy open source by big corporations" is increasingly becoming Tr
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   by thesource 6y ago

   you are on to something. It is really interesting how much double standard I see on developers forums: "oh it is not open source, why?" "oh it is open source or free, and you raising vc funding...probably gonna end up acquire