I don’t really know what you’re talking about or how it’s relevant (I know you’re referring to an incident that happened outside of HN).
The guidelines clearly ask us to “be kind” and to not “fulminate”. Your comment was flagged by several community members so there’s a pretty strong consensus that it’s not what we want on HN.
(So far as I can tell I have never said the words "die slow" in my life. I think you have me confused with someone else; my hip hop conversance begins and ends with Tribe and De La Soul. It's "Thomas", by the way.)
I'm not advocating in doing it for the exposure as a primary reason. And absolutely not to be paid in exposure. 100% agree with the comic there.
I should not have used that word. It is clearly charged with negativity.
Of course I wish everyone would be compensated for their work. I feel that for some types of project, publishing as open source is a great way for people to find and use it. This can give new opportunities.
Exactly which kind of project and under which conditions is up to debate.
I have worked on a few projects that I regret not being able to open source. Mainly not my choice, stakeholders wanted traditional go to market strategies and failed/ran out of money trying to make sales. I can't help but thinking what other opportunities could have arisen have we chose another strategy.
Please don't comment like this on HN. You may not owe "exposure" any better, but you owe HN better if you want to participate here.
If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
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I don’t really know what you’re talking about or how it’s relevant (I know you’re referring to an incident that happened outside of HN).
The guidelines clearly ask us to “be kind” and to not “fulminate”. Your comment was flagged by several community members so there’s a pretty strong consensus that it’s not what we want on HN.
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(So far as I can tell I have never said the words "die slow" in my life. I think you have me confused with someone else; my hip hop conversance begins and ends with Tribe and De La Soul. It's "Thomas", by the way.)
Why so harsh?
I'm not advocating in doing it for the exposure as a primary reason. And absolutely not to be paid in exposure. 100% agree with the comic there.
I should not have used that word. It is clearly charged with negativity.
Of course I wish everyone would be compensated for their work. I feel that for some types of project, publishing as open source is a great way for people to find and use it. This can give new opportunities.
Exactly which kind of project and under which conditions is up to debate.
I have worked on a few projects that I regret not being able to open source. Mainly not my choice, stakeholders wanted traditional go to market strategies and failed/ran out of money trying to make sales. I can't help but thinking what other opportunities could have arisen have we chose another strategy.
Thanks for your reply. Yep, you got me with that word. Exposure has become totally toxic to me, just like "merit."