No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This
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Re: No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This
#2Reminds me of this classic Goodfellas scene
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#3It's actually really sad that someone who has easily generated millions of dollars of value with their work gets nothing for it. Yeah yeah, it's open source, but it still sucks. I'm assuming they can't be compensated easily due to legal reasons?
Re: No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This
#4I'm curious what the motivation was for doing this now after supporting faker.js for 8+ years.
Also, isn't faker.js a completed project? What is there to maintain?
Re: No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This
#5Certainly his right; his project (though it has a very permissive license), his time. It sounds like he's tired of working on it, and he requires sponsorship to make it worthwhile. Let's say he doesn't, and the project is forked. This begs an interesting question: does he own the npm name? "faker" has mindshare, not just in JS; if he's unwilling to work on it, would it make sense for the NPM organization to reassign the name to whatever the active fork is?
Re: No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This
#6He got exposure. If he wanted money he should've got a job or started an agency. This is childish and why would anybody give him a 6 figure contract for "maintaining" faker.js?
Re: No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This
#7I'm curious what the motivation was for doing this now after supporting faker.js for 8+ years. Also, isn't faker.js a completed project? What is there to maintain?
I am guessing it's the usual, either money or time problems.
Could also be burnout I suppose.
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#8Certainly his right; his project (though it has a very permissive license), his time. It sounds like he's tired of working on it, and he requires sponsorship to make it worthwhile. Let's say he doesn't, and the project is forked. This begs an interesting question: does he own the npm name? "faker" has mindshare, not just in JS; if he's unwilling to work on it, would it make sense for the NPM organization to reassign…
He ought to keep the name, however there should be some way to keep track of the public forks via something that is github oriented. Maybe something in DHT like IPFS. It maybe something npm/yarn can work out.
Re: No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This
#9It's actually really sad that someone who has easily generated millions of dollars of value with their work gets nothing for it. Yeah yeah, it's open source, but it still sucks. I'm assuming they can't be compensated easily due to legal reasons?
They won't be compensated easily due to cheapness reasons. Anything legal is just an excuse (assuming Marak isn't on some terrorist blacklist or something).
Re: No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This
#10I'm curious what the motivation was for doing this now after supporting faker.js for 8+ years. Also, isn't faker.js a completed project? What is there to maintain?
With 179 open issues, many of which seem related to bugs or out of date information, seems like there's quite a bit to maintain.