Drew DeVault • 10/1/2020

Spamtoberfest

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The article criticizes DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest as a corporate marketing stunt that floods open-source maintainers with low-quality, spammy contributions. It argues the event places the burden of filtering spam on maintainers while failing to generate genuine value for FOSS projects, contrasting it with intrinsically motivated contributions.

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