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Programmer of a project with _9 billion downloads_ does it for free and is at a breaking point. (he also went to prison for manslaughter ? )
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Wow. This is actually amazing. This fricking guy apparently built the entire world economy and did it FOR FREE. Can you imagine trillions of dollars running through your annually, maybe even monthly, when you made it for these globohomo megacorps out of the kindness of your heart?
This dude is so cucked that it’s unfathomable.
How can someone be so fricking pathetic? To write and maintain the code that makes Adobe’s main product work, and do it for free because you feel responsible for Globohomo Inc success? Is this whole thing ragebait?
I’m still reading this sperg and the story keeps getting wilder. This is top tier drama honestly
I finally got to the end. Spoiler, dude finally grew a backbone and said frick you, pay me. Super based tbh. I feel for him (but not enough to pay him lmao)
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No it's opensores
tbh I maintained a project forever for the same reason, but at least I can say it was for the user base of like 30 South Americans who still used it
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Open source is based if you have twenty users and cucked if you have twenty thousand
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Open source doesn't necessarily mean free software.
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Yes and he’s not lying either. It’s 100% true that his code is an essential part of trillion dollar companies websites lol
Follower of Christ Tech lover, IT Admin, heckin pupper lover and occasionally troll. I hold back feelings or opinions, right or wrong because I dislike conflict.
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I’m pretty close to normie by dramatard standards and even I know how important core-js is. Learning that apparently one Russian has been starving himself and working prison camps (allegedly) to make enough money to maintain it for free is unreal
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It's wild how random Slavs end up being disproportionately influential in programming and computer science.
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russians made some pretty significant findings. check their medical history
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Check our any history, Russians have influenced the world greatly in the past and continue doing so. Surprise for burgereducationcels I guess
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The entire Ford modding community is thanks to slavs reverse-engineering Ford's dealer programming system.
Though it helps Ford doesn't lock down vehicle information like Chevy does. Ford even makes vehicle-specific AsBuilt data publicly accessible so people could figure out "ok this bit corresponds to tow package being installed, this is if a heated steering wheel is present..."
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#SLAVLIVESMATTER
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Just stop maintaining it and let the entire web fall to pieces until either some other cuck starts doing it or you start getting paid. It'd be funny and you'd either escape your self-imposed servitude or finally start pulling down an income.
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Atlas Shrugged
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Unironically a good example this time.
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Sure but that's like saying some easy slut has dated every successful student at her alma mater.
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It genuinely sucks that this guy is in this situation.
The first thing to do is to use him as a warning so OTHER PEOPLE STOP GETTING INTO THE SAME SITUATION.
He could easily license the software and bill those alexa-top-1000 websites $10,000 a year. But then he is asking for money, and they might say no, and rejection hurts.
He is the nerd in the corner angry that he's done so much to help and yet a girl has not thrown herself at him.
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License for commercial use, personal use is free. Easy.
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But the company might say "no"
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What a fricking r-slur, he should have just went to the FSS and told them he could insert minified code into half the West's top websites and cost them millions, how much will you pay me?
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I read it as escapism. Whatever problems he encountered in life, he ignored, 'cause he had core-js to play with
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