Comments on: Your Work is Bigger than Yourself http://zahnster.com/industry-talk/your-work-is-bigger-than-yourself my name's jade. i'm a child of the internet. Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:30:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Robert K http://zahnster.com/industry-talk/your-work-is-bigger-than-yourself/comment-page-1#comment-5354 Robert K Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:29:23 +0000 http://zahnster.com/?p=187#comment-5354 Hmm... is it really fair to criticize _why? While I sort of understand your reasons for doing so, I don't agree with them. _why gave far more to the community than he received. And specifically, you benefited far more from his work than he did yours. Thus, I would say you (and all of us) should be very circumspect in whatever criticisms we may choose to level at him. I prefer <a href="http://ejohn.org/blog/eulogy-to-_why/" rel="nofollow">John Resig's response</a>: Be grateful for the work he gave to the community and thank him for his contributions, without condition. ... and I would add to that: Think long and hard about what contributions we can each make to the opensource community as a way of repaying _why for his work. Hmm… is it really fair to criticize _why?

While I sort of understand your reasons for doing so, I don’t agree with them. _why gave far more to the community than he received. And specifically, you benefited far more from his work than he did yours. Thus, I would say you (and all of us) should be very circumspect in whatever criticisms we may choose to level at him.

I prefer John Resig’s response: Be grateful for the work he gave to the community and thank him for his contributions, without condition.

… and I would add to that: Think long and hard about what contributions we can each make to the opensource community as a way of repaying _why for his work.

]]> By: Psionides http://zahnster.com/industry-talk/your-work-is-bigger-than-yourself/comment-page-1#comment-5301 Psionides Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:17:03 +0000 http://zahnster.com/?p=187#comment-5301 You know, it's impossible to just completely annihilate an open source project which was downloaded thousands of times - anyone that downloaded it can take their copy and share it again... And that's what happened - most of why's projects are now available here: http://github.com/whymirror (probably not every single one, but most of them anyway). Of course I agree with you that he should have done this in a different way... You know, it’s impossible to just completely annihilate an open source project which was downloaded thousands of times – anyone that downloaded it can take their copy and share it again… And that’s what happened – most of why’s projects are now available here: http://github.com/whymirror (probably not every single one, but most of them anyway).

Of course I agree with you that he should have done this in a different way…

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