Why I turned my back on FOSS(gist.github.com)
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Why I turned my back on FOSS
https://gist.github.com/ellzey/12e3f69d02790458875840ffa0209a72
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All patents in the 3rd URL seem to be the same patent.
I recognize this github from some fun c puzzles! The developer is intelligent. What gives? I don't understand why it is difficult for someone like that to find employment. Could someone from the bay area give some insight into this kind of thing? The scene is different than that in Boston.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ellzey
Summary seems to be that his open source libraries are very widely used but he couldn't find a job in the Valley and became homeless.
Summary seems to be that his open source libraries are very widely used but he couldn't find a job in the Valley and became homeless.
Being able to write good and cool code is nice. Though there is more then coding skills to be a nice person to work with.
Wild (personal opinion, though many corporate would see the same https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/125894?v=3&s=360), erratic(see post and his GitHub history) communication; You can be the fanciest rocket science software coder, but i'm not surprised he has an employment issue. (do not read this as, i think its correct he has an employment issue)
Wild (personal opinion, though many corporate would see the same https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/125894?v=3&s=360), erratic(see post and his GitHub history) communication; You can be the fanciest rocket science software coder, but i'm not surprised he has an employment issue. (do not read this as, i think its correct he has an employment issue)
Well the writing style is nonsensical for one.
Reminds me of Terry Davis of TempleOS.
With that said, some people just don't work in a team but on their own they can do miracles. I wish we could start a small pateron or flattr fund for these guys and let them do whatever they want. While there would be no immediate ROI, the world be a much more interesting and fun place to live...
With that said, some people just don't work in a team but on their own they can do miracles. I wish we could start a small pateron or flattr fund for these guys and let them do whatever they want. While there would be no immediate ROI, the world be a much more interesting and fun place to live...
I mean that was an interesting read, but if that person is even half as weird as his writing I don't blame the companies.
Or the guy was drunk/high while writing this, dunno...
Or the guy was drunk/high while writing this, dunno...
Then again, if all that happened to me I'd be four times as weird as his writing. At least.
I appreciate this empathetic response. If you've never encountered a "brain won't go" moment in your life, it's nearly impossible to understand how a bright person can quickly go from presenting as such, to presenting as as a train wreck.
In the past several years, I encountered a mild form of "holy shit, a lot of stuff that was intuitive and natural just got hard for me because stress and other factors." Circumstances changed, and I pulled out of it, but I could have just as easily augered in.
It's probably going too far to wish that everyone here can experience a short-lived, non-catastrophic, empathy inducing mental health scare.
In the past several years, I encountered a mild form of "holy shit, a lot of stuff that was intuitive and natural just got hard for me because stress and other factors." Circumstances changed, and I pulled out of it, but I could have just as easily augered in.
It's probably going too far to wish that everyone here can experience a short-lived, non-catastrophic, empathy inducing mental health scare.
I don't know anything about the actual story here and the writing does not help either. Impossible to read, sorry author...
He got turned down for a lot of jobs (in shitty ways) despite having published some reasonably successful open-source libraries? How is open source to blame for him not getting a job exactly?
He got turned down for a lot of jobs (in shitty ways) despite having published some reasonably successful open-source libraries? How is open source to blame for him not getting a job exactly?
Majority of people who become homeless are actually mentally ill and that is the main reason for homelessness. I'm afraid this might be the case as well. I can see him walking into interview, acting obnoxiously, being twitchy/shaking/sounding desperate, talking chaotically. Healthy people instantly feel, especially those who are trained to read a person from his interview. He probably came off as a mentally ill, and probably is, which got him turn down. Everyone just tried to be polite with "not fit for company" line, because telling you are mentally ill might land a lawsuit, and because it's basic human decency.
If you are the author and you are reading these comments, hear this: mental illness is a serious condition that can quickly degrade your life to nothing. It is not unbeatable. Just seek medical examination explaining your situation. If your joy of development is back it may mean your worst part of the episode is already over, and with assistance you will be back on track much sooner. Good luck!
If you are the author and you are reading these comments, hear this: mental illness is a serious condition that can quickly degrade your life to nothing. It is not unbeatable. Just seek medical examination explaining your situation. If your joy of development is back it may mean your worst part of the episode is already over, and with assistance you will be back on track much sooner. Good luck!
I wondered if this person had mental health problems. It reads like the ravings of a schizophrenic. It's possible they need help rather than a rational analysis of their claims.
Edit: Of course, I have no real insight into this person's mental state, it just pattern matched for me with long circuitous paranoid emails a schizophrenic friend of mine used to send me.
Edit: Of course, I have no real insight into this person's mental state, it just pattern matched for me with long circuitous paranoid emails a schizophrenic friend of mine used to send me.
This unfortunately reminded me of Ian Murdock's (Debian founder) final tweets before he died under mysterious circumstances: http://archive.is/vBS6N
I just hope the author does not take his life, his thoughts are barely coherent and this entire gist is disturbing.
I just hope the author does not take his life, his thoughts are barely coherent and this entire gist is disturbing.
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Sounds like she should dual license AGPL/custom licence her code, require copyright assignments from contributes and charge companies for the custom licence. Then they would be forced to pay her if the work were truely vital to their bottom line.
Sounds harsh but what I'm trying to say is you have to take care of yourself or no-one else will.
Sounds harsh but what I'm trying to say is you have to take care of yourself or no-one else will.
Kindly provide the details on how would one go about licensing the code. I am a developer with no knowledge about the law. How can I license my code so that non-profit & hobbyist can use it for free, while the ones earning money off the code has to pay me.
Try google.com
I don't get what any of this has to do with FLOSS. Seems just American Capitalism as usual?
Reading between the lines here, so keep that in mind. Author wrote something popular (libevent) in a permissive license. A company took libevent and ran with it, refusing to hire the original author. Author is now in a bad place.
Sadly, that's one of the risks of releasing code under permissive licenses: it effectively no longer belongs to you. You may think that you're OK with that (like the author originally did), but human nature is likely to curb stomp you when you do lose that control.
Sadly, that's one of the risks of releasing code under permissive licenses: it effectively no longer belongs to you. You may think that you're OK with that (like the author originally did), but human nature is likely to curb stomp you when you do lose that control.
The angst and passive aggression in that post is off the charts - near-manic levels. Based on this alone I'd say the author is "not a good fit" for my reading preferences, can't imagine what working with them would be like.
[1] https://github.com/ellzey/libevhtp [2] https://chromium.googlesource.com/external/github.com/ellzey... [3] http://patents.justia.com/inventor/mark-ellzey-thomas