Races to the bottom to … do work exclusively for free and not make any money out of the hopes that they become the most popular OSS toolkit, with an end goal of … what?
Races to the bottom to … do work exclusively for free and not make any money out of the hopes that they become the most popular OSS toolkit, with an end goal of … what?
End goal of complaining that no one pays for their efforts.
Validation, often. Stars and installs make self-worth integer go up, etc.
Greed, sometimes. Gotta get those usercounts high to get acquihired / to sell out / to flip on the paid subs for formerly free features.
I can’t remember the word for “prosocial through lowering cost to zero” is but sometimes that too.
> I can’t remember the word for “prosocial through lowering cost to zero” is but sometimes that too.
Wiktionary:
Benevolent, altruistic, unselfish, beneficent, philanthropic, selfless
Philanthropic! Thanks.
This works for a while. Then you - the programmer - grow up.
Wise customers know this.
But a programmer is born every minute.
Not so much these days.
> at they become the most popular OSS toolkit, with an end goal of … what?
Look at how any "FOSS + VC + for-profit" company in the last 5-10 years worked out, and you'll see the playbook.
bait and switch
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