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by german_dong
172 days ago
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Many reasons: 1. Internet has made distribution frictionless. So unlike giving out Uber trips,
giving out code costs you nothing. 2. You have a real job. The "80% time" for which you're paid subsidizes
the self-promotional work you do for free, and let's not kid ourselves:
most of us write open-source not out of altruism but for the
recognition. 3. Software is immediately useful. Lawyering is a lot like programming
in that both involve putting pen to paper in just the right way. But
pro bono legal work is a lot more painful than whipping up some code.
Lawyers have to deal with people and all their bs. 4. Software is easy. I don't know why but the return on capital blows
away the return on labor. Whereas Microsoft may have once derived most
of their profit from software, they've now come around to the rest of
the tech industry which is selling hardware and compute -- the software
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I've only contributed to open source to fix bugs in software i use every day.