Chris Siebenmann (cks@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 11:45:13 JST

@lanodan I draw a distinction between 'open source' as a general thing, which (as you note) is a cockroach driven by people's urge to share and show cool things, and open source as a useful thing, more or less something you can confidently build on or use generally and which feels a bit precarious. 'I threw this thing out into the world' is eternal, 'I develop and keep maintaining this useful thing' maybe not so much, especially when it's big and important.