alt Hacker NewsRaces to the bottom to … do work exclusively for free and not make any money out of the hopes that they become the most popular OSS toolkit, with an end goal of … what?
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altairprime • yesterday at 2:44 PM
Validation, often. Stars and installs make self-worth integer go up, etc.
Greed, sometimes. Gotta get those usercounts high to get acquihired / to sell out / to flip on the paid subs for formerly free features.
I can’t remember the word for “prosocial through lowering cost to zero” is but sometimes that too.
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embedding-shape • yesterday at 11:17 AM
> at they become the most popular OSS toolkit, with an end goal of … what?
Look at how any "FOSS + VC + for-profit" company in the last 5-10 years worked out, and you'll see the playbook.
End goal of complaining that no one pays for their efforts.