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0 pointsMo34y ago0 comments

Only if you establish your lab in a tent on the street and put a sign that says "for public display" on it.

> And in case of OSS this lab may be my tiny garage where me and friends tinker on stuff.

That's not OSS. OSS would be leaving the garage door open, putting your garage on Google Maps and freely allowing anyone to walk in and see what you're doing. That's OSS.

Then getting angry about it is what you and OP are doing.

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throwaway2904y ago

> Only if you establish your lab in a tent on the street and put a sign that says "for public display" on it.

I don't get how your flawed analogy has evolved now. Care to expound?

Edit: I see your edit, thanks. Yes, if we leave garage doors open we still don't welcome these bots, sorry.

Mo3OP4y ago

But that is not up to you to decide in the case of OSS.

Public websites get crawled and indexed hundreds of times per day and sometimes linked to even with criticism. Would you not say this is the same concept?

throwaway2904y ago

Outside of my system vs. inside of my system. PRs count as the latter in my view. It's filing a task, for me to do, so it should not even seem like it is coming from a non-individual.

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throwaway2904y ago

> Only if you establish your lab in a tent on the street and put a sign that says "for public display" on it.

I don't get how your flawed analogy has evolved now. Care to expound?

Edit: I see your edit, thanks. Yes, if we leave garage doors open we still don't welcome these bots, sorry.

Mo3OP4y ago

But that is not up to you to decide in the case of OSS.

Public websites get crawled and indexed hundreds of times per day and sometimes linked to even with criticism. Would you not say this is the same concept?

throwaway2904y ago

Outside of my system vs. inside of my system. PRs count as the latter in my view. It's filing a task, for me to do, so it should not even seem like it is coming from a non-individual.

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