DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest Is Hurting Open Source

Re:DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest Is Hurting Open Source by newen on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @05:43PM (#24644297)

You might wait, what, a 10 person line to get a free t-shirt? Making 5 “corrected typo” commits is probably equivalent to that effort and looks like 5 is enough to get past a spam tag.

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Re:DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest Is Hurting Open Source by bartread on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @06:07PM (#24644581)

I really wouldn't. I'm not a minimalist by any means but I've been decluttering for a while and am certainly long past the point where I'll tolerate having possessions that I don't want. Maybe this is a privileged point of view but, as with swag in general, most vendor t-shirts are honestly just tat.

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Re:DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest Is Hurting Open Source by kortilla on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @06:22PM (#24644720)

> Maybe this is a privileged point of view

It is. T-shirts are wear items and getting a free one that looks decent is one less that you’ll have to buy.

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