[ubu7737]

This is an essay about maximizing personal outcomes. Maximize for income, for impact, for prestige, for a software outcome, you can differentiate on all these things but you are still essentially a thief.

Software is a collaboration and I would submit that most engineers have accepted this for one reason or another. The outliers who maximize their own personal outcomes are useless.

[logram]

I got lost at the thief part. I agree that knowledge sharing is good for both giving back to the community and as a goal in itself. But why does it make sense to call a thief someone that contributes to a community, even if done for self oriented goals?