OK, so what’s the conclusion here? People are scared of sharing their unfinished work, plain and simple. I know this isn’t headline news to most people, but I really think I’ve been in deep denial about this. I’m so used to throwing my creative output up for constant criticism, that I simply expect everyone else to do it as well. I think of it as the norm, and I can’t comprehend why someone wouldn’t want to do that… and yet clearly, the growing popularity of distributed version control shows just how thrilled people are to hide their work from each other. It’s the classic “testimonial” for systems like git (taken from a blog comment):
“Don’t tell me I should cooperate with other people at the beginning and publish my modification as early as possible. I do cooperate with other people but I do want to do some work alone sometimes.”
Hm, okay. Please just don’t work alone for too long!
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