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Tilde Co-Founder, OSS enthusiast and world traveler.

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    1. Kyle E. Mitchell‏ @kemitchell 6 Oct 2017
      Replying to @wycats @feross

      Interesting piece. If I have one criticism, it boils down to the fact that the words "money", "support", "sustain", "job", "hire", and "pay" don't appear anywhere in it. They're not variables in any of the equations in the system you're solving.

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    2. Kyle E. Mitchell‏ @kemitchell 6 Oct 2017
      Replying to @kemitchell @wycats @feross

      "So Open Source licenses make amazing tools of selfless, total generosity, if you come from a situation free of worldly concern, and that’s giving you can afford."https://licensezero.com/manifesto 

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    3. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 6 Oct 2017
      Replying to @kemitchell @feross

      For reference, I grew up poor, and was making barely a living wage a year before I started contributing to OSS.

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    4. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 6 Oct 2017
      Replying to @wycats @kemitchell @feross

      So I don't think this analysis is quite correct. OSS can help uplift some people (but not all people) through career advancement.

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    5. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 6 Oct 2017
      Replying to @wycats @kemitchell @feross

      The economic value in career advancement, recruitment, shared maintenance and ecosystem network effects are missing from 0L analysis imo.

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    6. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 6 Oct 2017
      Replying to @wycats @kemitchell @feross

      Restrictive licenses, especially ones that introduce mandatory $ costs, sharply reduce the network effects of ecosystems.

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    7. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 6 Oct 2017
      Replying to @wycats @kemitchell @feross

      Who's going to depend on mkdirp if users of your software need to pay a license to mkdirp (especially given the ease of reimplementing)

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    8. Kyle E. Mitchell‏ @kemitchell 6 Oct 2017
      Replying to @wycats @feross

      Why does anyone find, install, and use mkdirp, given the ease of reimplementing? What if the price is $5, and you're already licensing a dozen other packages in one transaction?

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    9. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 7 Oct 2017
      Replying to @kemitchell @feross

      It's a dependency of another package.

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    10. Kyle E. Mitchell‏ @kemitchell 7 Oct 2017
      Replying to @wycats @feross

      Why did the author of the depending package bother to find, install, and use mkdirp, given the ease of reimplementing?

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      Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 7 Oct 2017
      Replying to @kemitchell @feross

      Because the network effects of this kind of decentralizing are massive and make ecosystems robust. Many people don't want to go back.

      8:48 AM - 7 Oct 2017
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        1. Kyle E. Mitchell‏ @kemitchell 7 Oct 2017
          Replying to @wycats @feross

          @npmjs gives us global distribution, a common namespace, a web interface, and a CLI for read and write. Why can't those network effects apply to developer comp?

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