On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 12:53:30PM -0700, Walter Bright via dmd-internals wrote: > > On 6/24/2014 11:46 AM, Steven Schveighoffer via dmd-internals wrote: [...] > >Giving away all rights to hundreds of hours of work done on free > >time, or even at the core of someone's business may seem trivial to > >you, I'm not sure everyone feels that way. > > > > That's kind of in the nature of contributing to free software. It took > me a while myself to come to terms with that. It's not to say that > means no reward for doing it - one is the satisfaction of making a > difference by contributing to something great, the other is the > getting the credit for doing so. The credit has a lot of value to > one's professional career, which is why I strongly encourage > contributors to use their real names on github. [...]
Credit has a lot of value for sure -- in my case, a recruiter contacted me for an interview because he was impressed by my contributions on github. (And I'm not even using my real name as my github handle! Though I do have my real name attached to my profile.) T -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. -- Dirk Eddelbuettel _______________________________________________ dmd-internals mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/dmd-internals
