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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Replying to @sebmck
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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