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Jeff Hykin • Edited

As an open source developer, I solve problems because they're a problem for me. Once I solve the problem, I open source my solution because I don't want anyone to have to re-solve the problem that I just solved. Thousands of people run my code. If this is what being exploited feels like, then count me in.

The friends and collaborations I've made with random strangers on GitHub have given me a better sense of humanity and community than some of my best physical community service projects.

Also, to the open source devs don't maintain their stuff, thank you for making it open source so I can fix/update it myself when I need new functionality.