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Jessica, out of frame: "I mean, if you were going to spend THAT much, why didn't you buy me a star on Core-Python?"  @forrestbrazeal I think I might actually try watching the merge conflict pay-per-view. At least, a couple of times. @darkling @forrestbrazeal I want Steve Inman as commentator: "This commit will probably be the biggest mistake of his life. You should have just let it go, man! You should have just said: 'You know what? I'm gonna move on with my code', but no, you woke up and chose violence today and got up to somebody's repo and committed, just as he did too. And boom! A merge conflict straight to the dome!"  comic strip in six panels BOLD IDEAS FOR FUNDING OSS: 2. MERGE CONFLICT PAY-PER-VIEW! 3. OBFUSCATE YOUR CODE, THEN PAYWALL YOUR DOCS @forrestbrazeal 5. AMAZON SPONSORS ALL OSS PROJECTS IN PERPETUITY 6. STRAIGHT-UP BRIBERY  @forrestbrazeal #alt4you #alttext4you The first panel is titled "The Github Star Registry Name a Star After Someone Special" with a person giving a certificate naming star 179063 on tensorflow after "Jessica" presumably to a female appearing "Jessica". "Jesscia" responds "This cost HOW much?" 1/5 @forrestbrazeal @forrestbrazeal 3/5 The third panel is titled "Obfuscate your code, then paywall your docs" with a popup over text saying "Stumped yet? Subscribe to our onlyfunctions TM" and a blue accept button. @forrestbrazeal 4/5 The fifth panel is titled "Amazon sponsors all OSS projects in perpetuity" and shows a person in business attire handing a bottle to a person sitting at a desk with a computer on it. The person in business attire says "You work for us now. Here's your pee bottle". The panel also includes the author's fedi handle. @forrestbrazeal 5/5 The sixth panel is titled "Straight-up bribery" and shows a person in a spy outfit talking to a hoodie wearing person in front of a computer. The spy says "I'll give you $50k to merge my malicious PR" and the hoodie wearing person responds "Buddy, for $0 you can take over this whole cursed project." @forrestbrazeal actually honestly surprised MLM OSS havent been done yet (as far as I know) @sillydan @forrestbrazeal Isn't that roughly how the Linux kernel with its subsystems is being maintained? @forrestbrazeal I snorted tea at "merge conflict PPV"... I've been on projects where the comment war could've been used as evidence by the ICC...  @forrestbrazeal Nobody has taken me up in it yet.   @forrestbrazeal @forrestbrazeal Definitely worked on "docs on the the paid version", but boss was super cheap so I just patched it to get the paid features.   @forrestbrazeal Funny enough, back before NFT's became a thing, I thought about how I could make closed-source custom licensed binary themes for my app launcher that work with the theme engine I made if I really wanted to, like one of those bad thoughts you get but decide against. This comic reminded me of that.  @forrestbrazeal Probably because blind people can't see your post. Please consider to at alt text. |
@forrestbrazeal "OnlyFunctions" is actually mongodb.