I'm no fan of hostage-taking-via-license-and-naming-rights, but the underlying is bad: too many OSS maintainers are paid too little; Silicon Valley happily rides their wave while erasing them, one ahistorical product launch at a time.https://twitter.com/pfrazee/status/1067219073539473408 …
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Let's also get suuuuuuuper clear on a few things: 1.) OSS is a growth hack (to use the "kids these days" parlance). Not the most sustainable way to make a thing, but a good way to grow one and externalize costs early. 2.) growth hacking, as a goal, is disgusting.
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Replying to @slightlylate
OSS provides dependency resilience, lots of things are too complex to build repeatedly, and too critical to leave in the hands of one master. Or are you arguing Chrome is only open source as a growth hack?
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The resilience is a "peace among equals" sort: only when multiple parties can credibly fork is there any depth.
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