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Most responses seem to be: Doesn’t matter, they can find jobs elsewhere. Which while true, sadly the way it’s mostly been conveyed in this thread lacks a lot of empathy.
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When a project has full-time maintainers that are community-sponsored is it unethical to compete if it means they could be out of a job? How do you quantify a projects value if it could have a negative effect on people’s lives? Utilitarianism? This isn’t targeted or a subtweet.
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1. Be open early and give them a chance to participate in that next thing. Who knows, maybe they’re interested. 2. By creating the first thing you made that job possible. By holding off to share the next one you might be locking the next person out of that opportunity.
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#1 may not be in my control (open early). #2 is definitely a good point though, had not considered that and makes me feel a bit better.
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This is a cool question - maybe merits a longer discussion? Gut feeling: no. Very unlikely that "new thing -> people out of job" is that direct and measurable. Especially in web land where there are a bunch of solutions to the same problem that learn from one another.
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Yeah I shouldn’t have been so explicit with “people would be out of jobs”, didn’t mean for it to sound so arrogant. It’s easier for me to work on an open source project in secret for a long time and because of my position in the community anything I release is more likely to...
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Isn't swearing an oath to capitalism part of the american citizenship process
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Not sure. I only had to swear an oath to McDonald’s and Walmart to get my American visa.
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Respectfully, "could put community maintainers out of a job" is a perfectly valid ethical concern, but it's pretty far down on the list "ethical concerns I hope Facebook engineers are considering." There's bigger fish.
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I have created multiple open source projects and work on open source tooling at Facebook. It’s not the only ethical concern I think about and unclear what you would want me to think about given the things I work on.
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