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Owning a popular open source project is obviously valuable. If you're capable of it, do that. The rest is excuses.


Open source is not the meritocracy many think it is.

Let's say you one-upped AngularJS with a new library. How would you compete with that sort of marketing muscle? Devs are no different from regular people: they don't want to change, they'll be averse to re-learning things, and they'll downgrade you for not being backed by Google.




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