On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Dennis Kane <[email protected]> wrote:
> Was just saying it is, a tad. Maybe "pointless" was a bad word choice. > Overblown is probably better. Don't think you can deny that without those > other things, the source code of any non trivial program is quite a > worthless commodity in and of itself. The entire node ecosystem, at the > moment, is at the point where the programs are still fairly trivial, and so > the value of source code is still relatively high. That state of affairs > won't last forever. > You're digging an even bigger hole - there are significant and important applications written in Node that are far from "trivial". Take my own Haraka for example - almost half of the contributions have come from Craigslist. The application has been significantly improved because it is open source. > Anyway, I guess the larger point is that I feel my program has the > potential to be quite profitable in the future. I still am fairly young > and quite hungry. I would much rather be very close with a few business > associates than just another anonymous user on github who everyone takes > for granted. I have ambitions, and I won't apologize for that. > That's fine - almost everyone who contributes to open source also makes money from software that isn't open source. But you're belittling a huge community of people who have spent way longer figuring this stuff out than you have. Being condescending about the node ecosystem and node applications and open source in general on this mailing list is just going to turn people off your future products. Remember that stuff you say on the internet stays there forever. Matt. -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
