>"To blame NaNoWriMo’s demise on the events of the past year does a disservice to all struggling nonprofits. What hurt the organization far more and for far longer than any of those things was the fact that too many members of a very large, very engaged community let themselves believe the service we provided was free."
>"My statements are not an indictment of a community I feel should have done more; they are a plea for you to look at the free services you use through a different lens."
It's true for open source, it's true for arts, it's true for research and science and government agencies.
As someone who was very much part of the piracy generation, this is just as much aimed at me. I grew up with the believe that anything on the internet must/should be free. In hindsight, there's only so much free riding any system can absorb.
I didn’t even realize there was a service. I figured it was just a hashtag until I heard some guy associated with it wrote an embarrassing blog post about AI and ableism or whatever
>"To blame NaNoWriMo’s demise on the events of the past year does a disservice to all struggling nonprofits. What hurt the organization far more and for far longer than any of those things was the fact that too many members of a very large, very engaged community let themselves believe the service we provided was free."
>"My statements are not an indictment of a community I feel should have done more; they are a plea for you to look at the free services you use through a different lens."
It's true for open source, it's true for arts, it's true for research and science and government agencies.
As someone who was very much part of the piracy generation, this is just as much aimed at me. I grew up with the believe that anything on the internet must/should be free. In hindsight, there's only so much free riding any system can absorb.
Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43558920
I didn’t even realize there was a service. I figured it was just a hashtag until I heard some guy associated with it wrote an embarrassing blog post about AI and ableism or whatever