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How much better the world would be if open source was fully funded by some of those tech billionaires whose fortunes were made by sitting on its shoulders.
And the news outlets that give them lip service.
> “I couldn't grab dinner with someone after work,” he says, because he felt like he'd be letting users down: I shouldn't be out enjoying myself. I should be working on Bootstrap! That's an attitude problem on the part of the developer. He shouldn't feel guilty for providing insufficient free support.
It isn't so much that companies are unfairly using others' work. It's that if you're going to use an open source tool in your business's codebase, you'll inevitably need support, upgrades, and bug-fixes, which translates into you putting pressure on the maintainers to do more work. By all means, use those people's previous work to put something amazing out into the world quickly. However, when you inevitably need hel…
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It isn't so much that companies are unfairly using others' work. It's that if you're going to use an open source tool in your business's codebase, you'll inevitably need support, upgrades, and bug-fixes, which translates into you putting pressure on the maintainers to do more work. By all means, use those people's previous work to put something amazing out into the world quickly. However, when you inevitably need hel…
I don't blame Jacob, but man the WWW would probably be better without Bootstrap. Again, it's not Jacob's fault, he made a product that was so good everyone wanted to use it... so everyone used it. It feels like the Demolition Man future, where Taco Bell is the only survivor of the Franchise Wars.
How much better the world would be if open source was fully funded by some of those tech billionaires whose fortunes were made by sitting on its shoulders.
> While you're surfing the web, you ought to thank Jacob Thornton for making it so pretty. He's a programmer who, along with web designer Mark Otto, created Bootstrap, free software that the pros use to make their sites look spiffy. If you've ever noticed that a lot of websites have the same big chunky buttons, or the same clean forms, that's likely because an estimated one-fifth of all websites on the planet use Boo…
How much better the world would be if open source was fully funded by some of those tech billionaires whose fortunes were made by sitting on its shoulders.
Really it's this whole stupid capitalist setup. It's not just open source programmers and artists who suffer this. It's everyone. Have you ever met a single parent who works full time just so they can be a parent full time? Which, by the way, is probably the most important work someone can do, parenting.