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I recognize his challenges, but not sure if I can look past his victim blaming and "both sides bad" war rhetoric.
I wrote this sentiment earlier[1], but I'll repeat it here. If a dev wants money for his work, he should license his work as appropriate and demand payments. If a dev releases his work free-as-in-libre and/or free-as-in-beer, they don't get to complain if the donations are "insufficient". Or to put it another: Of course a company won't pay up if they don't have to. This guy seems to be considering making his work int…
> If a dev releases his work free-as-in-libre and/or free-as-in-beer, they don't get to complain if the donations are "insufficient". Of course they get to complain. Complaining and doing nothing to change the situation is what's problematic. Doing work without reward, even if you did not expect any in the first place, can be soul-sucking, and it is totally normal to complain about it. You don't do FOSS for the recog…
That's my simple ethics take on it. The value created is that large at least. The amount of money he saved them in dev time.
"Then he should license it as xyzsksudhsj, he should have released it as a commercial product, he should have put on a tie and pulled himself up by his bootstraps" no. Highly unlikely the tool would have become as useful as it as, or as widespread and thus a source of truth (and a guiding force in the world of web standards). That's victim blaming.
It's time for the top 100 companies to pony up, straight up. They don't "have to..." until the outrage gets high enough, until the internal pressure gets large enough.
So we should all do our part and start sending emails up the chain, start the conversation, start being a little annoying.
The web is utterly broken. This one guy is enabling a multi-billion dollar advertising ecosystem for nothing? Absolutely insane.
I hope he is getting the help he deserves (I dropped a message on twitter after seeing this)
The messages he received are so vile, why would someone attach their name to something like that? I personally would immediately avoid employing anyone who posted like that, doubly-so in a semi-professional space like Github.
Here's simple solution: create a product and sell it for money. Seriously. Stop giving stuff away for free. EDIT: let me elaborate. Writing open source is not a business strategy. At best, it's a gimmick, or outsourcing infrastructure maintenance to the public. What you should do is the following: 1) Project authority. This is easy. You are the creator and maintainer of a critical piece of infrastructure. You are THE…
It's definitely time for him to let this project go, working on it is a literally thankless task and the level of entitlement shown towards his work has been infuriating to watch. The outrage towards him daring to ask the community for help , something done in an act of desperation, is a real wake up call for open source maintainers - the community doesn't give a fuck about you, they want your code and they want it f…
> the community doesn't give a fuck about you, they want your code and they want it free That's a pretty polarizing mindset. The community wants to be a community - you take, and give as you can. Nobody owes anyone else anything.
I generally agree with the idea that nobody owes anyone else anything, but in this case, I think he should’ve been let it all burn to the ground — maybe then the ingrates would be able to understand how critical his library is.
I made a donation with bitcoin and then tried to check how much btc does this wallet have. https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/addresses/btc/bc1qlea754... Do I read properly there are ~$1000 now and ~$73000 ever deposited?