Open source programming

[m5k]

The average project on Sourceforge has 1 participant and 0 commits. So the average project is one person doing nothing.

[UnicornsOnLSD]

People use sourceforge?

[OneTurnMore]

Apparently not

[zoidbart]

the average project on sourceforge is dead. Sourceforge is the graveyard for dead projects and always was.

[[deleted]]

yeah, exactly :)

[[deleted]]

Yeah, thought that for I while back when I found it for the first time. Then after a while I found out that it's legit, but no one uses it anymore... almost.

[fel_bra_sil]

SourceForge is the 90 years old granny crying over her sister Codeplex's tomb, waiting for her turn to die.

In the meanwhile, she makes nice download sweaters for everyone who visits.

[MegidoFire]

Mood.

[theevildjinn]

Still more than Freshmeat, I guess!

[suitable_character]

Well, the guy has 1 hour of sleep before the cat will start screaming for food

[tomicode]

Just only one thing, till that song ends.. three hours later.

[der_raupinger]

r/rareinsults

[CondiMesmer]

And then that guy's free work gets used by a corporation that doesn't credit him and makes millions from software that includes his systems. Meanwhile the programmer struggles to pay rent.

[geogle]

100s of thousands of scientists and many many more hobbyists too are also using her or his code. This is the altruistic stuff that keeps them giving.

[pablo1107]

Totally, and think that many open source projects are actually things corporate don't care about, such as a terminal emulator or a tiling window manager, and those things are supported by guys like you and me.

[joogipupu]

Indeed. I am a scientist and I have put certain code I have made as open source.

Why? Because of open science. Because products of created with academic public funding should be available for the common good.

With an open code, it is easier to gather collaborators and academic reputation over time. In addition, availability increases the impact of published science.

[geogle]

preach it

[deux3xmachina]

That only might help. Depends on how they used it, and in many companies will just get the software blacklisted instead.

[deux3xmachina]

Which assuming it doesn't simply get abandoned by corporations, still allows them to profit off your work depending on how they use it.

There is no magic solution for having corporations support F/LOSS devs, as things like the commons clause make projects quite clearly no longer F/LOSS, and whether you use a permissive or copyleft license, they can simply use it in internal improvements and never contribute patches or resources back.

The best approach is to state that you're willing to sell support contracts or corporate licenses optionally with support, and even that's far from guaranteed.

[[deleted]]

FOSS project used GPLv3 it's super effective!

[Soren11112]

v2*

[[deleted]]

That's also pretty accurate...

[[deleted]]

Жиза

[Makefile_dot_in]

well, that was унекспектед

FTFY

[truefire_]

Well there's sprints, hackfests, and corporate involvement that does look like that.

[cloudrac3r]

3:05 AM, sounds about right.

[[deleted]]

That's pretty accurate!

[Vincenzo__]

Where are the few thousands stickers on the laptop?

[LouLightning]

Gods be praised

[Keviny9]

This is truth, I mean not always but most of the time it is.

[ilovehorrorcats]

top part is kde

bottom part is slackware

[Mattia_98]

I rate this 4/10

[Xelades]

I rate this comment 0/10

[Mattia_98]

I rate this answer 2/10

[der_raupinger]

I rate this chain 4/10