Comment by josephg
5 years ago
No you don’t. You aren’t alone in assuming that, but it’s an entirely unreasonable expectation. And as evidenced by this exact thread, people like you cause good developers to stop maintaining their projects. Your attitude harms our community.
Practically speaking, if I give you some work I did for free yesterday, and give you some work I do for free today, that does not entitle you to free work from me tomorrow. It does not entitle you to free support on the code I’ve published already. I owe you my time when you’re paying for it. Until then, if I have made something you found valuable you are in my debt for its use. Not the other way around.
As a user of my software I generally give you two rights - you have the right to use the code in your project, and the right to fork the project. And as the maintainer, I have the right to spend my time however I want for the rest of my short life on earth. If the beach looks like more fun than putting up with entitled complaints on github and HN, that is my right.
Cool, you don’t have to work in the project if you don’t want to. But going and nuking it off the face of the earth so nobody can have it is still impolite.
It's good that git clones are all complete, full copies, including history.
But they don't have the issues nor pull requests that were open when the repo disappeared.
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And for that I am quite thankful that it is so widely used.