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I'm giving up — on open source - Blog (nutjs.dev)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Sustainable open source will stay a dream

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think by far the biggest problem with open source is that the user community fundamentally mis-understands the nature of the transaction involving them and the developer(s) of the software they're using.

I think if we could make everyone sit down, take 10 minutes and just read The Social Contract Of Open Source a lot of people would keep developing OSS software.

Brass tacks: You are being given a gift. The person who gave you that gift owes you NOTHING because.. They gave you a gift and by using their software you chose to accept it.

I see it all the time in the open source project I co-maintain, and I have it SUPER easy beacause ours is really just a bundle of configuration files for Neovim.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Is that contract copyrighted?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Is that contract copyrighted?