Notices by Benjamin Hollon (benjaminhollon@fosstodon.org)

Okay, I'm finally giving #Neovim a try; I've been using #Vim for months now and hadn't even tried Neovim, so now I'm doing it.

And to be sure I give it a fair try…

~] vim
The program 'vim' is not in your PATH. It is provided by several packages.
You can make it available in an ephemeral shell by typing one of the following:
nix-shell -p vim
nix-shell -p vimHugeX
nix-shell -p vimPlugins.vim-elixir
nix-shell -p vimPlugins.vimacs

@RL_Dane
I'm embarrassed to admit that I've probably gotten close.

@g @jollyrogue @RL_Dane @cobra @alcinnz
And that's not why it's the end goal—once you have exposure, you still have to harness it with for-profit endeavours. But if you don't have exposure, for-profit projects are going to be useless in most cases.

@jollyrogue @RL_Dane @cobra @alcinnz @dheadshot

I agree with the sentiment of not doing anything for free that you hope to make a living off of it, but I do think that Writing is a slight exception. I just have to be careful about *what* I make available for free.

@RL_Dane @cobra @alcinnz @dheadshot
I still wouldn't use it for a business on the off-chance that my business would grow with a central dependency that I now can't use under the license I had.

Honestly I don't know that I'd use anything for a business of mine that had any terms restricting whether you can profit off of it. I respect that license, but if you don't want me making money, I won't use it for endeavours aimed at me making money.

@RL_Dane @cobra @alcinnz @dheadshot
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My personal tendency is to lean toward putting things out there for free with permissive licenses to get yourself known, then to try and make some money off of your newfound popularity, prehaps by selling a service like hosting for a FOSS project you made.

@RL_Dane @cobra @alcinnz @dheadshot

As the COMM major my tendency is to lean toward being good at marketing yourself. ;)

Here's the thing about licensing: for someone starting out in a field like writing or coding freelance, the concern is less that people will pirate your work or make it proprietary and more that they'll never run into it at all because your license was restrictive and people weren't sharing it.
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I don’t like email, so I’m currently designing an RSS-based contact form for my website.

This could be awesome or it could be stupid; I’ll have to try and see.