Comment by kmike84
5 years ago
A data point: I've been involved in Open Source for 10+ years, developing projects myself, helping to maintain very popular projects, contributing, and I don't see a trend like this. I've interacted with hundreds of people over the years, and the vibes are overwhelmingly positive; I haven't noticed any hatred or rudeness towards myself. I can't think of a single time interaction with OSS people afected me negatively, but there were a lot of positive (or neutral) interactions.
Over time projects I'm contributing to were changing, and so I was exposed to several different communities (Python web development, data science, web scraping), and all of them turn out to be awesome. Maybe that's just luck, but not all OSS maintainers have it hard - no idea why :)
+1 to recharge the batteries!
The Python community has probably the nicest people of all languages!