This author assumes that open sourcing a package only delivers value if is added as a dependency. Publicly sharing code with a permissive license is still useful and a radical idea.
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Now, that does not mean it has no value, but it is a trade-off. After about 14 years, for instance, I retired permanently from rubygems.org in 2024 due to the 100k download limit (and now I wouldn't use it after the shameful moves RubyCentral did, as well as the new shiny corporate rules with which I couldn't operate within anyway; it is now a private structure owned by Shopify. Good luck finding people who want to invest their own unpaid spare time into anything tainted by corporations here).