OPEN-SOURCE CODING IS NOT SELFLESS CHARITY.
IT'S JUST A DIFFERENT BUSINESS MODEL.
YOU ARE NOT MOTHER THERESA WITH A KEYBOARD.
YOU PUBLISHED THAT REPO FOR YOUR OWN REASONS.
I HOPE YOU GOT WHAT YOU WANTED.
I OWE YOU NOTHING.
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I don't think anyone thinks otherwise.
Someone clearly hurt you tho.
The value of open source is in how many times you code , (or ideas) are forked !.
Every time someone one forks , they take over end user complaints while sending a majority of value to you .. next fork it becomes exponential...
If you think no one has any use of your code .. like no fork expected .. might as well sell your code for #sats .. that is if you really need money .. better stgy is to wait and keep on building uir repo .. but its a long game ..
Nothing is free !
Points in case -
- Linux is valuable cuz over 2000 distros package it besides big corps selling support ..
- Bitcoin is valuable cuz of thousands of shitcoins copy the idea ..and the code ..
- deepSeek is valuable cuz hundreds of startup AIs already copied the model .. Perplexity is now running deepseek in US ..
But muh shantytown. It takes so much time and effort to mantain ☹️
There's also just the whole fallacy of "ossified software", where you can program something and just leave it to rot.
That's a complete non-starter on Nostr, as the protocol is constantly changing, expanding, being refactored, etc. You have to update at least a couple of times, per year, or it'll eventually break or become obsolete.
There's no such thing as Nostr One Hit Wonder.
Constant maintenance
What do you propose the devs do though? Take the repo down? I've seen plenty of others who enjoy a deprecated software so they fork it an maintain it.
A good example. Look a the official Argon2 reference implementation. Yeah the same Argon2 that powers a large number if not the majority of password hashing all over the place. It hasn't been maintained in 4 years. No one has touched in in C or libraries that port it. There are some alternatives but none that match the reference in terms of completeness and performance. I assume other languages have attempted to maintain it, but there are 0. I mean literally 0 (I checked last week) active forks of the official Argon2 library.
The open source coder owes you nothing either.
Yeah, that's fine. The whole idea behind open-source is that there is no standing contract.
The crankiest freeloader of them all 🙄
Yeah, she should learn to code.