Comment by jmull
5 years ago
> you implicitly promise and signed up for
Think about this. Do you really think it makes any sense to try to hold people to promises inferred by alternate parties that aren’t even providing any consideration in return?
Just think about that.
A large amount of human interactions work this way. It's fuzzy and messy, with many shades of gray, but the world is filled with implicit promises with varying degrees of commitment and severity.
Well sure.
That's exactly why I encourage people to think about it.
It's a delusion to believe random strangers owe you anything (beyond basic compassion and curtesy) and you'll continue to be unhappy until you let go of that delusion.
Apparently a number people believed this developer worked long hours on this project (for free) because they were obligated to do so. Not only was that incorrect, it seems to have contributed to the dev leaving the project since some people felt justified in making rude (and sometimes angry) demands.
Thinking about it is important because when you do, you can see there's no reason at all to believe that the dev would put in a lot of work for free to maintain a project while continuously receiving abuse from a reddit mob while doing so.