I wonder if the people making paid courses donate any of the proceeds to the projects they're teaching.
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Replying to @sebmck
Seems just as bad as companies using open source and not supporting it. Actively extracting value and putting additional users on projects.
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Replying to @sebmck
The truth is most (all?) people treat open source as free-as-in-beer. Broken model. Makes me so unhappy.
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Replying to @threepointone
It's sad though because the people making these courses are in our community
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Replying to @sebmck
I remember reading a while ago that people aren't good by default, they need incentives to be so. the law, money... whatever.
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bsd/mit/gpl/etc licenses are not good enough, need a way to 'tax' derivatives.
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Is there a counter argument though that courses (even paid ones) are a form of contribution?
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Speaking as a guilt ridden course maker who doesn't contribute much code to OSS
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Yes. I hold this view.http://yehudakatz.com/2010/01/05/the-maximal-usage-doctrine-for-open-source/ …
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If you want to make an Ember course, I'd buy you a
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