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Re:Self-Taught Software Engineers: Why Open Source Is Import... by faitswulff on Sunday November 13, 2016 @07:34PM (#12946671)
> I then created a new repository on GitHub and created my own network scanner for iOS called MMLanScan (The reason I didn’t create a pull request back to original project it’s because it was abandoned).

This seems a bit like his early attempts to sell free Ubuntu discs. Hopefully he got the wording slightly wrong and forked it instead of starting a brand new repository with no attribution.

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Re:Self-Taught Software Engineers: Why Open Source Is Import... by myhf on Sunday November 13, 2016 @07:57PM (#12946743)
https://meaningness.com/metablog/geeks-mops-sociopaths
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Re:Self-Taught Software Engineers: Why Open Source Is Import... by andrewflnr on Sunday November 13, 2016 @11:07PM (#12947486)
That was fascinating, but I don't quite see the application here.
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Re:Self-Taught Software Engineers: Why Open Source Is Import... by digi_owl on Monday November 14, 2016 @03:52PM (#12953241)
If what the grandparent comment pointed out was deliberate rather than a goof by a inexperienced developer, then it steps right into the sociopath box.

And frankly the article is so relevant to current goings on in the FOSS world that it hurts reading it.

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Re:Self-Taught Software Engineers: Why Open Source Is Import... by throwaway_exer on Sunday November 13, 2016 @09:09PM (#12947043)
Not sure what's wrong with selling Ubuntu disks.

Initially, Stallman made a living selling GNU tapes, and pre-Internet, linux was often installed by a "friend" who made the stack of 40 floppies and charged a few bucks to cover his time and media expenses.

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