RailsConf 2019 - Opening Keynote by David Heinemeier Hansson

Why HN readers recommended it

It is the go-to reference in debates about whether open source maintainers are owed compensation, and commenters say it is worth watching even for non-Rails developers.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Confreaks

Topic

open source sustainability

Format

talk

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

6

Recommendation years in dataset

2019–2022

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• It's an interesting idea but I wonder what will make this different than gittip from years ago, or gratipay, or Patreon, or just having a "donate" button in your README file. I guess I'm just skeptical in that this will change anything for the developers …

• > Given the amount of value open source provides to for-profit companies (with the open source maintainers rarely getting any reciprocal value from the companies that profit off them), why is it so alarming to think that these maintainers might think of a clever idea …

• This reminds me of a lot of DHH's keynote about open source from last year: [VIDEO] Even if you're not a Rails developer it's worth watching. From what I remember from the talk he is totally fine with and doesn't hold any grudges against Twitter, …