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Comment by onli

5 years ago

That's not true at all. You can pay for amateur bullshit, and you can get professional software and support for free (and free as in freedom).

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oefrha  5 years ago

You can get professional software and support for free, until you can’t. This “you’ve provided me free support once, so it’s your obligation to support me for free indefinitely whenever I ask” attitude has certainly contributed to my open source exhaustion as a maintainer.

  • shkkmo  5 years ago

    Well, good luck getting a company you paid for a product to provide indefinite support, large professional software companies cancel projects and EOL software all the time.

Touche  5 years ago

You only have a right to complain about the amateur bullshit you paid for, though.

  • endorphone  5 years ago

    You have a right to complain about anything and everything.

    For instance, I don't pay a penny for HN but I can complain that these discussions sometimes become self-congratulatory prattle where angry people carrying a giant chip on their shoulder posit absurd, completely ridiculous notions and they're supported in their group delusion by like-minded parrots. You don't have to agree with my complaint, but nor do I need your or anyone else's permission to hold it.

buzzkillington  5 years ago

My Ethernet is stuck in ipv6, professionally tell me how to fix it, for free.

  • geofft  5 years ago

    That's not an open source project any of us maintain.

    Also, there are expectations for both sides of a professional interaction. My employer buys various fancy networking equipment for lots of money and we absolutely wouldn't expect an answer for that question.