Is it ethical for a programmer to promote his/her own library?
- by Kit Menke
Fairly recently I started maintaining my own open source JavaScript library. I created it to solve a pretty specific need but fairly regularly see questions that can be solved (in whole/part) by using my library.
I've always gone ahead to post my answer including my library and make sure to always include a disclosure specifying that I maintain it.
I feel for open source projects this may not be such a big deal but where do you draw the line? (ex: commercial products) Is it ethical for a programmer to promote is own library? When is it not?