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boredpuddingtoday at 1:05 PM2 repliesview on HN

Because being friendly works doesn't work. Open source maintainers have been screaming about funding for years. One dude comes along, adds some scripts on top of all the work of those maintainers, and gets millions in funding?

You can't expect people to be nice then. It's completely messed up.


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danieljacksonnotoday at 6:54 PM

"One dude" that has been one of the lead and most well known contributors to open source for decades now.

oefrhatoday at 1:10 PM

In this case CSS-Tricks got paid $4m first, so probably the wrong entity to be complaining about funding. But maybe the lead editor in question who’s not the creator didn’t see much of that?

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