Dare ObasanjoJul 22, 2023

Residuals are a rather fantastical compensation mechanism when compared with other industries. Imagine if software developers kept receiving a paycheck as long as the company was still making money from your software.

Marc Andreesen would still be getting residuals from Firefox for code still around from the Netscape Navigator days. Similar for Windows 95 code in modern Windows. https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/14229/is-there-any-code-in-firefox-as-of-2020-that-comes-from-netscape-navigator

Is there any code in Firefox (as of 2020) that comes from Netscape Navigator?

Inspired by comments on the previous question Is it true that Netscape Navigator eventually became Mozilla Firefox? (Answer: Yes). In 1998, Netscape released a large amount of their existing sourc...

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Show threadEmelia 👸🏻
@carnage4life if tech had residuals, I'd probably make enough money by now to focus on open source & my company full time — I've so much code that I know is still in production! Code I wrote in 2015 is still used & maintained, an app I worked on in 2019 is now the company's core product, a product I built in 2014 is still live, etc.
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Show threadJoe ❌👑Jul 23, 2023
@thisismissem @carnage4life Except that movie industry residuals are tiny except for a few big stars, so you wouldn't be getting much.