Re:Announcing Starfighter
by tptacek on Tuesday March 10, 2015 @11:45AM
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That's awesome if you're the guy who wrote Expressjs, and less awesome if you're an extremely talented systems programmer nobody's ever heard of who hasn't hit on a project that happens to capture the industry's attention.
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Exactly. I know some amazing programmers who happen to also like mountain biking and building robots with their kids, who happen to work for companies that don't publish their code to github♯. The idea that all the good programmers work with open source in their own time and spend every waking moment pushing to github is a dangerous and fruitless one, because you're missing out on great talent with those blinkers on.
♯And let's be fair, 99% of what's "open source" is junk anyway, just because you wrote an 80% done static blog generator doesn't mean you're "advancing the commons"