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0 pointsChrisMarshallNY1y ago0 comments

> For me the only sane way out was to pass the helm

That's what I did.

The good news is, the folks that took it over, have added so much good stuff, that my original code is almost gone.

I've written software that was still in use, 25 years later. It gets "stepped on," along the way, and that's actually great. It can be ego-deflating, but I've found the cure is to walk away, and work on something new.

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the_mitsuhiko1y ago· 2 in thread

But is that a sustainable model? Because it does not really solve the feeling of dread, particularly if others build successful companies on it. I don't have that feeling myself, but I talked _a lot_ to Open Source developers over the years and it's easy to feel disappointed when you yourself built something, but then you see other people build on VC funded companies on top.

ghaff1y ago

There's probably a basic philosophical point. If you get bent out of shape because someone is taking your open source software or Creative Commons content or whatever and profiting from it in accordance with the license, you probably shouldn't do the work or shouldn't publicly release it.

ChrisMarshallNYOP1y ago

> But is that a sustainable model?

For me, it is.

But YMMV. I write native Swift apps, or Web stuff for a pretty small demographic.

No one will get rich from my stuff.

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