The Ethics of Unpaid Labor and the OSS Community (2013)

Re:The Ethics of Unpaid Labor and the OSS Community (2013) by treve on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @03:36PM (#9228126)

I think 'The Hacker Community' knows that others benefiting from code you freely provide is one of the extremely obvious side effects of open sourcing.

It sounds a bit like you're buying a round of beers for everyone in the bar, and then you're upset people didn't compensate you for it.

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Re:The Ethics of Unpaid Labor and the OSS Community (2013) by yaauie on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @03:51PM (#9228205)

Or more likely that you're buying a round of beers for everyone in the bar, and are just frankly exhausted by the continuing flood of entitled recipients complaining about the quality and/or usefulness of the beer.

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Re:The Ethics of Unpaid Labor and the OSS Community (2013) by treve on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @04:04PM (#9228298)

That's an entirely different problem in itself.

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