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by tomjen3 5804 days ago
I think you underestimate the false negatives you get with that idea. I can't be the only one who would rather do consulting or hacking at something that might at some point become a startup than doing open source.

And to top it of, I hate github (their functionality should be build into the git client, I shouldn't have to check a web page to see if anybody has ideas to improve my code).
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heresy 5804 days ago
It's tricky, I love open source and use it a lot.

But likewise, after work I'm usually doing some work on my freelancing projects, half of which the client has rights to the source code for, but is not open source.

Getting two "salaries" every month is useful for quickly building up equity.

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technomancy 5803 days ago
> I think you underestimate the false negatives you get with that idea.

Maybe so, but false negatives are not nearly as disastrous as false positives.

If someone hates github, I'd be fine looking at bitbucket, gitorious, etc too. =)

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