Quoting Byrne Hobart, Working in Public and the Economics of Free, The Diff, 2020

Running a successful open source project is just Good Will Hunting in reverse, where you start out as a respected genius and end up being a janitor who gets into fights.

— Byrne Hobart, Working in Public and the Economics of Free, The Diff, 2020 (via)

6:27pm on July 19, 2025 from Tbilisi, Georgia.


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                title: Working in Public and the Economics of Free
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