I have code in your OS, node and maybe your web framework.
I am *absolutely* only interested in OSS when I get credit. Why would I remain interested in contributing if someone else takes credit?
Your comment made me think. I’ll preface this with an I also have code in your favourite web framework.
There are many people like myself who don’t care about attribution, and don’t understand people who care more about attribution than the project itself.
Then there are just as many people like you, who are only interested in contributing as long as credit is given. And you seem just as equally unable to empathise with my position.
And I feel like this is causing such a heated environment, because neither of these groups are seeing eye to eye.
Just a thought.
> Then there are just as many people like you, who are only interested in contributing as long as credit is given.
The "as long as credit is given" reads oddly to me. Attribution, for me is basically table stakes. Score of zero. I contribute, my contributions are attributed to me. I think you think of credit as a reward, but it's not. It's just decency to me.
Someone taking credit, enjoying the fruits of my work, but not enough to attribute them to me, is minus one. It's not that I'm not being rewarded, but rather that I'm being stolen from.