Comment by shirshak55
5 years ago
Now due to that comment actix maintainer has disabled issue too. I don't know why people show such attitude as if they are paying him to do opensource.
5 years ago
Now due to that comment actix maintainer has disabled issue too. I don't know why people show such attitude as if they are paying him to do opensource.
In open source you give and take. The actix author almost certainly (unless they deploy their own kernel) has profited immensely from other peoples work. This is because as a community we have realized that we don't sell libraries, we sell stuff build with them, so we all win when we share.
It is your choice to use open source software without open sourcing your own work or without contributing.
But by engaging in open source you engage in a social contract, you become part of a community whose goal it is to foster collaboration and help one another, other people start to rely on you, just as you rely on their libraries, compilers, and kernels.
The author choose to break that social contract out of spite. He created a scenario where people choose to rely on him, when they could have relied on other works, and then screwed them over majorly.
> The actix author almost certainly (unless they deploy their own kernel)
... or use Windows / MacOS / Solaris / any other commercial OS he paid for...
> by engaging in open source you engage in a social contract
You heck. You simply allow other people to use your work as they see fit. That's it. The only contract is the license, and the license is very explicit in denying the existence of any other tie, explicit or implicit.
When you hold the door open for somebody you don't sign shit, yet it's implicit that you don't swing the door in their face.
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"The actix author almost certainly (unless they deploy their own kernel) has profited immensely from other peoples work."
Prove it.
"But by engaging in open source you engage in a social contract" https://gist.github.com/richhickey/1563cddea1002958f96e7ba95...
>> Prove it.
Actix was written in rust. Rust is OS. qed.
Quote from Rich's gist.
>> I'm sure you know better about the one true way to write software. But kindly don't burn the community down on your way out, with self-serving proclamations.
The actix author could just have walked away, no harm done, push one button "Archive", go outside and enjoy the sun.
Instead they choose to throw a tantrum, write a pamphlet and nuke everything.
Entitlement goes both ways.