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by onion2k 2766 days ago
If you go through your dev career thinking only people who write and use open source code are brilliant you'll miss out on the opportunity to learn from some of the industry's best developers. There are loads of people working on entirely closed source projects who are very, very good engineers.

Not every project is web.
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mariusmg 2766 days ago
>If you go through your dev career thinking only people who write and use open source code are brilliant

I didn't said that. I have just pointed that even close source developers are using open source when working daily on their closed source projects. So saying they don't care about something they use daily is ....wrong. Also I didn't said anything about their level of brilliance :)

>Not ever project is web.

The snark level, off the charts....

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SmellyGeekBoy 2766 days ago
> So saying they don't care about something they use daily is ....wrong.

A lot of people don't care about cars but will still own one to drive to work every day. It's just a tool.

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thecatspaw 2766 days ago
> So saying they don't care about something they use daily is ....wrong.

Its not. They just dont care if something is open source or not. Maybe they would happily use a free, closed source library instead.

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pjmlp 2766 days ago
Using open source in many enterprises is just a way to save costs, many times at expense of productivity as there are closed source options that are actually better, but not all companies are willing to shell out the cash.

Contributing back, or even announcing to the world that such packages are used is not even a thing.

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onion2k 2766 days ago
I didn't said that. I have just pointed that even close source developers are using open source when working daily on their closed source projects.

When I said "entirely closed source projects" I meant that literally - some projects have no open source elements. They're written in closed source languages that you have to pay for, with closed source libraries and frameworks that you also have to pay for. They tend to be things like control systems in small industries, unusual embedded systems, and so on.

The software industry is big and hard to make general statements about. "All developers will use open source code" is not true.

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C1sc0cat 2766 days ago
You must be rather sensatiVe if that's of the chart
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eeZah7Ux 2766 days ago
Not all open source is web crap. Not all open source is on GitHub, or has a website and is even indexed by search engines.
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pdimitar 2766 days ago
The recently announced https://sr.ht is a good example.
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scirocco 2766 days ago
Yeah, just like Sharepoint developers
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