open source isn’t your free beer

• open source powers everything, and we’re killing it
• your favorite apps? built on open source
• that startup you admire? standing on open source shoulders
• billion-dollar tech giants? they’d die without open source

the ugly truth

• we treat it like a damn free-for-all
• download code, complain about bugs, ghost the maintainers, repeat
• we demand open-everything|open everything while giving nothing back

open source isn’t an open bar

• you don’t get to chug down years of someone’s work without giving back
• maintainers aren’t your free support team
• they have lives, priorities, and their own vision

the death spiral

graph TD
    A[Open Source] --> B[Big Tech Profits]
    B --> C[Creators Burn Out]
    C --> D[System Dies]
    style D fill:#f96,stroke:#333,stroke-width:2px

• you can download it for free
• but building it costs blood, sweat, and endless nights of debugging
• while big tech makes billions, creators burn out

the fix isn’t complicated

• stop freeloading
• contribute something
• respect maintainers
• build the future

building sustainability

• at gno.land, we’re not just talking
• we’re building proof of contribution systems that actually reward creators
• because open source needs more than passion - it needs sustainability
• it’s time to write-good-code|write good code that gets paid, not just praised

the reality check

• this isn’t just about code - it’s about community
• it’s about giving a damn about the tools that power our world
• maintainers remember
• karma’s a bitch

take code. give back. or watch it die.

See also

• ml/blog/open-everything.md
• ml/blog/write-good-code.md