Not new advice, but it's worth being reminded about. I think programmers actually follow this principle quite a bit. It's just that once they have written a nice tool, they release it as open source software. For a lot of people, I think the message needs to be, "built it for yourself, and try to sell it too".
Great point! There is a fine line between open source and profitable apps, I just made the call the other day to open source something instead of making a paid app.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 16.3 ms ] threadGreat point! There is a fine line between open source and profitable apps, I just made the call the other day to open source something instead of making a paid app.
Of course, there would be checkbox to turn them off (or whatever). No recompilation needed.