{"id":472,"date":"2007-02-17T08:56:27","date_gmt":"2007-02-17T13:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/02\/17\/the-way-of-the-open-source-jedi-master"},"modified":"2007-02-17T08:56:27","modified_gmt":"2007-02-17T13:56:27","slug":"the-way-of-the-open-source-jedi-master","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/02\/17\/the-way-of-the-open-source-jedi-master","title":{"rendered":"The way of the open source jedi master"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a thought on why you do things&#8230;. Do you do things because of believing in the principle, or do you do things to get recognized (by people)? The latter is driven by ego, and the former is the true way of the open source jedi master.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at Stallman. Some of us may not agree with him, but he&#8217;s clearly still in the game, fighting the good fight. Where&#8217;s ESR these days?<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, useful bits I gathered from chit-chatting with <a href=\"http:\/\/ditesh.gathani.org\/blog\">Ditesh<\/a> a moment ago. Makes one think.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20The%20way%20of%20the%20open%20source%20jedi%20master&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2007%2F02%2F17%2Fthe-way-of-the-open-source-jedi-master&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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