alt Hacker NewsRelated to this, the concept of "Free as in Puppies" from Richard Hipp, the creator of SQLite, quote:
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Suppose you had a pull request for SQL. Hey. I've got this new feature for SQLite. Here's the pull request. When you're wanting me to pull that into the tree, you say, oh, it's free.
No. It's not free. What you're doing is asking me that "I have this this cool feature", and you want me to maintain it for you, to to document it for you, to test it for you, to maintain it for you for the next twenty five years.
That's not free.
You know, Linus Torvalds is famous for saying, you know, there's free as in beer and free as in speech. Mhmm. But there's another kind of freedom. Free as in as in puppies.
Oh, look. I've got a free puppy for you. Okay? You see where this is going?
A pull request is a free puppy. And then you just got a kennel at the end of the day full of puppies. You're just like Yeah. And and you can't just throw them out.
Okay? You're morally obligated to take care of them for natural life. Yep. I know. I don't want any free puppies.
"""
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FYI there are quite a few glitches in there:
> and want you want me to maintain it for you
> to to document it for you
> Linus Torvalds is famous famous
> A pool request
> They're you you're you're morally obligated
Thanks! This is very similar indeed. Related: I see a lot of “drive-by” PRs by agents, who obviously have no intent of ever maintaining the code they wrote.