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DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest Is Hurting Open Source

DigitalOcean’s Hacktoberfest is Hurting Open Source.
For the last couple of years, DigitalOcean has run
Hacktoberfest, which purports to “support open source” by giving free
t-shirts to people who send pull requests to open source repositories.

In reality, Hacktoberfest is a corporate-s…

https://blog.domenic.me/hacktoberfest/

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