Re:The Cathedral and the Bizarre
by teh_klev on Sunday December 15, 2019 @06:35PM
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> The fact that I wrote a toy renderer in Rust five years ago and haven't touched it since then doesn't change this.
I ask you in good faith...if you pushed this to a public github repo that was your reasoning? If it was something I found to be of value and you'd LICENSE'd it under a promiscuous license and I took that code and made a few million dollars from your idea (and kept all the money), would you be happy with that?
Was this just a thing to show potential employers you can code and use git, how does an employer even know actually you wrote that code?
> they're referring to serious projects like the Linux kernel, Apache, PostreSQL, Firefox, etc.
I feel you're missing the point here, not all the contributors to these projects are getting paid for their efforts. See his point about Linux Torvalds comment about:
This model of using people was acknowledged right from the beginning with a sly wink to Linus Torvalds from Eric S. Raymond in The Cathedral and the Bazaar.
Eric S. Raymond: "In fact, I think Linus’s cleverest and most consequential hack was not the construction of the Linux kernel itself, but rather his invention of the Linux development model. When I expressed this opinion in his presence once, he smiled and quietly repeated something he has often said: “I’m basically a very lazy person who likes to get credit for things other people actually do."
I ask you in good faith...if you pushed this to a public github repo that was your reasoning? If it was something I found to be of value and you'd LICENSE'd it under a promiscuous license and I took that code and made a few million dollars from your idea (and kept all the money), would you be happy with that?
Was this just a thing to show potential employers you can code and use git, how does an employer even know actually you wrote that code?
> they're referring to serious projects like the Linux kernel, Apache, PostreSQL, Firefox, etc.
I feel you're missing the point here, not all the contributors to these projects are getting paid for their efforts. See his point about Linux Torvalds comment about:
This model of using people was acknowledged right from the beginning with a sly wink to Linus Torvalds from Eric S. Raymond in The Cathedral and the Bazaar.
Eric S. Raymond: "In fact, I think Linus’s cleverest and most consequential hack was not the construction of the Linux kernel itself, but rather his invention of the Linux development model. When I expressed this opinion in his presence once, he smiled and quietly repeated something he has often said: “I’m basically a very lazy person who likes to get credit for things other people actually do."