I've got another one:
4. Breaking down that barrier of perfectionism that prevents you from publishing or finding worth in your creations.
Re:The Cathedral and the Bizarre
by galaxyLogic on Saturday December 14, 2019 @08:34PM
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HackerNews is open source, right? We share our ideas free of charge here. I'm not even aware of the copyright if any that applies to postings here. And we do it for fun, not for profit. But does it a great book make? Does it even make a magazine?
So I think the point of the article is that while Open Source has its uses, it is not and as far as we can see never will be a wholesale replacement for commercial software.
1. As a learning experience, how does GitHub work?
2. As advertisement for myself as software developer
3. As a check on myself, is the software good enough for others to use. When you do something publicly "on stage" it better be good. Not only good in terms of "code quality" but in terms of "does it do something useful?".
So I think I've got some benefits from publishing my code as open source. Not financially, like the corporations.
I think the world is still waiting for a better monetizing model for opens source, as well as for component-software in general. As things go Cloud, I think such a model will eventually if not soon emerge.
On the article, I found this to the point:
"The truth revealed that OpenSSL was seriously underfinanced with only one full time operative working on a code base of hundreds of thousands of lines of C."