Cracks are showing in Enterprise Open Source's foundations

Re:Cracks are showing in Enterprise Open Source's foundations by serial_dev on Thursday January 28, 2021 @11:49AM (#25944677)

I don't see anything bad with the "celebrity" devs using open-source for their own "selfish" purposes. For the most part they do improve software, and help coding get more popular. Their work can help those devs go independent in some shape or form (or the least, it helps them get their next job more easily or put them in a stronger negotiating position).

The fact that they do a far bit of self-promotion should not be hold against them, in the end we are all working to achieve something in life, and for some, a necessary ingredient is some self-promotion through open-source.

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Re:Cracks are showing in Enterprise Open Source's foundations by sidlls on Thursday January 28, 2021 @12:46PM (#25945574)

I’m gonna say something controversial: the vast, vast majority of open source software is garbage. Partly that is due to the rise of developers just writing slop to promote themselves with. The existence of “Celebrity” devs isn’t necessarily a problem, but the culture that has evolved over the last few years seems more focused on the celebrity part than the dev part.

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