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RailsConf 2019 - Opening Keynote by David Heinemeier Hansson

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  • A classic. People kept recommending it from 2019 to 2022.
  • Presented by David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails
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David Heinemeier Hansson delivers a keynote arguing against the expectation of payment for open-source work, sharing his philosophy on Rails.

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3 people recommend this, 1 disputes it

What people say. Recommended as a thought-provoking perspective on open-source sustainability and the relationship between creators and commercial users.

nickjjon Hacker News • Recommends

On “GitHub Sponsors”

It's an interesting idea but I wonder what will make this different than gittip from years ago, or gratipay, or Patreon, or just having a "donate" button in your README file. I guess I'm just skeptical in that this will change anything for the developers who are trying to make some type of income for their contributions. On a related note, DHH recorded a very nice keynote at Railsconf 2019 on expectations of payments in open source: link to this video
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westoqueon Hacker News • Recommends

On “NPM Bans Terminal Ads”

…g model that doesn't affect the essence of the project being open source (e.g., offering paid support), projects like Sidekiq having Sidekiq Pro. Users shouldn't be the one "paying" for open source software through the ads. This is making developers pay for the project indirectly. DHH latest keynote from Railsconf 2019 hits the nail in the coffin: link to this video…
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nickjjon Hacker News • Recommends

On “No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This”

This reminds me of a lot of DHH's keynote about open source from last year: link to this video Even if you're not a Rails developer it's worth watching. From what I remember from the talk he is totally fine with and doesn't hold any grudges against Twitter, GitHub or Shopify making hundreds of millions of dollars off Ruby on Rails while getting zero compensation in return. Mainly because he open sourced Rails with no monetary / fame expectations and then worried about generating income from services around his open source project. I don't know Marak's history but I do know developing a good faker library definitely isn't trivial, so I'm sure his work is very much appreciated by the folks who use it but…
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activitypeaon Hacker News • Recommends

On “IHP, a batteries-included web framework built on Haskell and Nix”

>25 dollars a month for solo projects >125 dollars a month per seat for companies That's.. irregular. I really have nothing nice to say about this model, so I'll just leave a really good conf talk here. The part around 8:30 is really pertinent to this situation. link to this video
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heartbreakon Hacker News • Disputes

On ““About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today””

I don’t know about progressive, but he’s definitely something. Here’s his last in-person RailsConf keynote: link to this video He’s promoting anarcho-communism in a RailsConf keynote.
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nickjjon Hacker News • Mentions

On “I'd like to review your README”

> My pet peeve with README DHH had a funny line around Dropbox's "mission" in his 2019 railsconf video (linked to the direct point in the video): link to this video Dropbox's official mission as of 2019 was: "We're here to unleash the world's creative energy by designing a more enlightened way of working" And DHH's remark was: "For fuck's sake Dropbox, you host files and make them appear on all of my computers" Funny enough since then they changed their mission to be "Our mission is to design a more enlightened way of working" based on link but it still doesn't come close to explaining what they do.
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