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Is Jeff Atwood Wrong?? Recent Blog Debate About Donating to Open Source Projects

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I absolutely love jeff atwood's Coding Horror blog, but found myself in rare disagreement with him this morning..

He posted some reflections on another blog entry by Scott Hanselman on the death of the open source project NDoc.


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Open source software is at its best when you aren't obligated to do anything at all other than use it.
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You definitely shouldn't have to pay for it.
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If contributing money is foolish and contributing code is an extravagance, what's a poor user to do? Nothing. Nothing at all, that is, other than use the software.
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-Jeff Atwood

I'm not quite sure where Jeff is coming from with his conclusion that "contribuing money is foolish".

i wrote about some of these issues in my article on donationware, "When Do Users Donate?": https://www.donation...icles/One/index.html

Read more about this debate and add your opinion..



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