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Well the writing style is nonsensical for one.
Reminds me of Terry Davis of TempleOS. With that said, some people just don't work in a team but on their own they can do miracles. I wish we could start a small pateron or flattr fund for these guys and let them do whatever they want. While there would be no immediate ROI, the world be a much more interesting and fun place to live...
I don't know anything about the actual story here and the writing does not help either. Impossible to read, sorry author... He got turned down for a lot of jobs (in shitty ways) despite having published some reasonably successful open-source libraries? How is open source to blame for him not getting a job exactly?
I wondered if this person had mental health problems. It reads like the ravings of a schizophrenic. It's possible they need help rather than a rational analysis of their claims. Edit: Of course, I have no real insight into this person's mental state, it just pattern matched for me with long circuitous paranoid emails a schizophrenic friend of mine used to send me.
I just hope the author does not take his life, his thoughts are barely coherent and this entire gist is disturbing.
Sounds like she should dual license AGPL/custom licence her code, require copyright assignments from contributes and charge companies for the custom licence. Then they would be forced to pay her if the work were truely vital to their bottom line. Sounds harsh but what I'm trying to say is you have to take care of yourself or no-one else will.
Kindly provide the details on how would one go about licensing the code. I am a developer with no knowledge about the law. How can I license my code so that non-profit & hobbyist can use it for free, while the ones earning money off the code has to pay me.
I recognize this github from some fun c puzzles! The developer is intelligent. What gives? I don't understand why it is difficult for someone like that to find employment. Could someone from the bay area give some insight into this kind of thing? The scene is different than that in Boston.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ellzey Summary seems to be that his open source libraries are very widely used but he couldn't find a job in the Valley and became homeless.
Wild (personal opinion, though many corporate would see the same https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/125894?v=3&s=360), erratic(see post and his GitHub history) communication; You can be the fanciest rocket science software coder, but i'm not surprised he has an employment issue. (do not read this as, i think its correct he has an employment issue)
I mean that was an interesting read, but if that person is even half as weird as his writing I don't blame the companies. Or the guy was drunk/high while writing this, dunno...
Then again, if all that happened to me I'd be four times as weird as his writing. At least.
In the past several years, I encountered a mild form of "holy shit, a lot of stuff that was intuitive and natural just got hard for me because stress and other factors." Circumstances changed, and I pulled out of it, but I could have just as easily augered in.
It's probably going too far to wish that everyone here can experience a short-lived, non-catastrophic, empathy inducing mental health scare.
I don't know anything about the actual story here and the writing does not help either. Impossible to read, sorry author... He got turned down for a lot of jobs (in shitty ways) despite having published some reasonably successful open-source libraries? How is open source to blame for him not getting a job exactly?
If you are the author and you are reading these comments, hear this: mental illness is a serious condition that can quickly degrade your life to nothing. It is not unbeatable. Just seek medical examination explaining your situation. If your joy of development is back it may mean your worst part of the episode is already over, and with assistance you will be back on track much sooner. Good luck!
I don't get what any of this has to do with FLOSS. Seems just American Capitalism as usual?
Sadly, that's one of the risks of releasing code under permissive licenses: it effectively no longer belongs to you. You may think that you're OK with that (like the author originally did), but human nature is likely to curb stomp you when you do lose that control.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well the writing style is nonsensical for one.
Reminds me of Terry Davis of TempleOS. With that said, some people just don't work in a team but on their own they can do miracles. I wish we could start a small pateron or flattr fund for these guys and let them do whatever they want. While there would be no immediate ROI, the world be a much more interesting and fun place to live...
Well, this particular author is the creator of libevent, so there's probably enough ROI already.
Sounds like she should dual license AGPL/custom licence her code, require copyright assignments from contributes and charge companies for the custom licence. Then they would be forced to pay her if the work were truely vital to their bottom line. Sounds harsh but what I'm trying to say is you have to take care of yourself or no-one else will.
Kindly provide the details on how would one go about licensing the code. I am a developer with no knowledge about the law. How can I license my code so that non-profit & hobbyist can use it for free, while the ones earning money off the code has to pay me.