Comment by hypfer

I suppose we're going to just gloss over the fact that the primary party benefitting from people publishing their work like this is someone else.

Someone else being usually some corp that is happy to pay with exposure instead of money.

This is of course a rather cynical read, but the first instance of luck being "Having your OSS library take off" kinda paints this picture for me.

Which does make sense I guess, given that it's a piece of writing by the great free labor extraction machine GitHub, which was bought by Microsoft not because they had suddenly gotten altruistic at heart.

Which isn't to say that it's all bad, but there obviously is a clear conflict of interest here that doesn't get explored at all.

There is a point to be made for not publishing your work in ways that makes it trivial for others to benefit from it. A more balanced piece of writing would've warned about this instead of purely providing encouragement.