Re:Ask HN: How to optimize your career for happiness?
by ReactiveJelly on Sunday December 19, 2021 @02:53PM
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But the point of a soup kitchen is to give without expecting any RoI, not even non-monetary return.
If I want to build a community of people who upstream patches for a project, copyleft does it better than saying patches are not required.
MIT is like a soup kitchen because soup kitchens are like MIT. I don't want to work in a soup kitchen.
Re:Ask HN: How to optimize your career for happiness?
by pronlover723 on Sunday December 19, 2021 @09:52PM
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> If I want to build a community of people who upstream patches for a project, copyleft does it better than saying patches are not required
I'm confident that you can't back that up with any facts. MIT/BSD projects are doing just fine at community and patches.
Re:Ask HN: How to optimize your career for happiness?
by goodpoint on Monday December 20, 2021 @10:32AM
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> The attitude above is like given to poor people at the sour kitchen and then getting angry if they make it out of poverty
Absolutely not. A correct comparison is volunteering at a soup kitchen while see someone hoards the food and sells it back to homeless people and pockets all the profit.
And sometimes even takes credit for the quality of the food.
> Permissive licenses are equivalent to unpaid labor in the eyes of SaaS companies and other freeloaders.
Is a way to unhappiness. I MIT/BSD stuff and no worry about who uses it and how much money they make. The attitude above is like given to poor people at the sour kitchen and then getting angry if they make it out of poverty, become successful, and don't follow in your foot steps. What they do after I've given them the soup is irrelevant.