hehehe, that's hilarious. perhaps it would really end up like you've grown out of it or maybe by raising the bar, among other things.
others would simply use their idle times creating their startup instead of immediately contributing code to F/OSS projects. Although they would still contribute to F/OSS projects they've used on their startups but only after they've turn themselves into multi-millionaires (if not billionaires) in their late 20s or early 30s. but i think the best thing that would happen is if you can monetize the open source project you've initiated similar to WordPress/Automattic which have a current valuation between $150M - $300M. and if you're going to try and imitate their success, please don't start creating another blogging software :) On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 10:10 AM, Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know about you guys, but personally I gain zero geek pride > from working on open-source projects. > > I used to have a couple of projects like a DECADE ago and back then I > was brimming full of pride at bug reports and code fixes and mention > on web sites.... > > but that is so loser-ish :-P > > Make no mistake, I still hack. > > I hack boats. I hack camera lenses. I hack flashes to add > functionality to them. I hack cameras (well, i blew up my EOS 350D > from hacking it.. oh well) > > All of which are far more fun than contributing to an open-source project. > > > > On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Ariz Jacinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > .. > > i don't think money is the issue but i'm pretty sure that bragging > rights > > among alpha geeks can be a huge factor. i still remember being on a > weekend > > coding marathon and it's all because of pride hehehe. >
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