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All my new code will be closed-source from now on

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Re: All my new code will be closed-source from now on

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Post by moltar »

This is a foreign position to me. I open sourced my code not to make money but because I saw that others can benefit from it. I never made money from open source. If I did my mental model would be that these are charitable donations, not an income stream I can rely on.

Re: All my new code will be closed-source from now on

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Post by mellosouls »

The entire argument is framed through an anti-open-source view which sees participation as entirely motivated by money.

It's an unfortunate presentation that makes it more difficult to sympathise with - and ultimately it may not matter; either somebody else will fill the gap or the LLMs he resents will help coders create their products without the libraries he seems to think are valueless without a set financial cost.

Re: All my new code will be closed-source from now on

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Post by Ekaros »

Monetizing open source never made sense for me. Mostly because I operate from selfish viewpoint. Why would I pay for something that is provided for free? It is starting to seem like I was right. You have to fund it from selling a product. Or be one of the few that are valuable enough to be paid for running it. But those are exceedingly rare in total population and don't make scalable business model.

Re: All my new code will be closed-source from now on

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Post by diego_moita »

elbci wrote: post #2

Luddite: We need to destroy these mechanical looms that are taking all our jobs leaving us homeless and hungry Marx: Did it occurred to you to destroy the system that make robots doing your job a bad thing?

And both of them failed.

Both the machines and "the system" are alive and well. Did it occurred to you that you're using machines (computers, internet, HN) created by the system to complain about the system?

The bitter truth is that we don't have any good alternative for both the machines and "the system".

For Luddites' and Marxists' chagrin, manual weaving was indeed a crappy job and "the system" brought what they'd call "advance in the means of production".

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