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Why Do Open Source?

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danieladams607
danieladams607 1 month, 2 weeks ago

And also, if everyone thought like that, it would be very expensive to do everything in a computer

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brianmartin440 4 months ago

Harpoon is awesome I use it everyday 🔥

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danielleadams340 5 months, 2 weeks ago

I make mods for fun (granted small mods but still). Thing is: I am not a guy to support mods. I may fix bugs if I personally also use the mod, but If I don't play the game or play with that mode anymore, tough luck. That's why I am always reluctant to share. Fir my two most modded games, rimworld and stellaris, I have a big mod with dozens of tweaks to vanilla or other mods just for me because I wanted these to exist. The only things I really shared were fixes for other mods and when I thought that others may enjoy it and could take over if they wanted it to work after it broke.

matthewmist72
matthewmist72 6 months, 1 week ago

i’m sure this comparison has been made before but theprimeagen is like piratesoftware but actually the real deal

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andrea_hodges 6 months, 1 week ago

Best advice

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suzannelloyd476 6 months, 2 weeks ago

I agree, I've built stuff to help me do my work better/faster and I then shared it with the community.

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jacquelinesanchez870 7 months ago

Thanks to all programmer and people wich contribute to open-source ! Thank you many times, you are heroes

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melissa_haynes 7 months, 1 week ago

Thank you very much

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brenda.padilla 7 months, 1 week ago

One way I give back to the software that helped me in the past is because I like to help the evolution of the tool I use daily, or that gave me many opportunities, at least in my case.

anel.valdez
anel.valdez 7 months, 1 week ago

Sometimes I just like the free package/plugin because there is no good alternative, I just have to fix the problem of that package that is annoying to me if no one else does it. I don’t see it as a free contribution because it helps me as much as anyone else

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lucieadam19 7 months, 2 weeks ago

Agreed. I sacrificed this entire year treating my business like an open source project. From all the crazy things I learned throughout just this year has opened up an enormous amount of opportunities I can take on now and dramatically increased the efficiency of the things I already do.

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sarah.zuniga 7 months, 2 weeks ago

Sharing is caring ❤

sarah_wallace
sarah_wallace 9 months, 1 week ago

Most importantly, it feels good when you work to make someone life better..

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zoé_rousset 10 months, 2 weeks ago

Mark Zuckerburng nods in agreement 😊

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meganseraph65 10 months, 2 weeks ago

hue hue hue, true, nobody wanna get burnout doing the things they love

keith_davis
keith_davis 10 months, 3 weeks ago

The issue is when people create high level apps in the open source license, and then they cry because other people become rich with a fork

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grégoire_louis 11 months, 2 weeks ago

"if you don't wanna get burnt out, you should collaborate on open source projects on top of the dev work that you bill to your company/clients" Did... Did I get that correctly?

christine_woods
christine_woods 1 year ago

I'll be real the only thing I received for doing anything open source were dm's with "improvements" for my code. I did implement the changes but then had to fix the extra bugs left by the other programmer. I'd probably not do that again today

dagmarcascade31
dagmarcascade31 1 year ago

The thing about making money is that it serves no purpose if you remember that it's a social construct. Having skills and being valuable is much better, and from that perspective, you can get all the benefits you can think of, both material and spiritual.

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lisa_hayes 1 year, 1 month ago

You can’t make money without using open source at some point, so yeah, everyone should be making a little bit of open source