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    submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    [–] [email protected] 56 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Its these kind of people that give me hope

    [–] [email protected] 40 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    To be honest, yes. In general, not just tech or Linux related stuff. You look at humanity and what it has come down to, and then you notice these people... and hope fills your heart again.

    [–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    The vast majority of my open source projects, I'm the only user. I release it open source because back in the day, GitHub only allowed open source projects if you want to use it.

    But another reason is the hope that someone will find it helpful. If not the project itself but maybe the code.

    I have one project that has a significant following and honestly it's sometimes very scary because I might not want to keep it updated because of my own interests changing.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

    That's the great thing about open source though. Sure, you might drop off the face of the earth tomorrow. But if you do, the code is there, and maybe someone who was using it clones the repo and carries on that work.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

    The astounding thing is history is full of these types of people when you peel back the “couple great men” narrative of history and actually look at how good things happened, it is kind of bewildering.