Comment by ztjio
5 years ago
I'm on board with your general message, however, the larger actix isn't some independent project. It is clearly endeavored to build and serve a community. And maybe that wasn't the intent of the author/maintainer? I don't know. But I'm going to tell you right now that if you don't want to be part of a community (for better and worse) the best plan is to not join one, especially not one that proselytizes itself in a way similar to many commercial/oss hybrid outfits.
I don't mean to condone people being jerks or the typical reddit brigading that is being talked about. It's just, it doesn't really matter what your license says. If you act like you're going to serve customers, you just might get some customers and if you can't deal with customers then you probably shouldn't act like you want to serve customers.
It's perfectly fine to build a project in the open and license it openly and not accept open participation.
> But I'm going to tell you right now that if you don't want to be part of a community (for better and worse) the best plan is to not join one
Well, you can want to be a part of a community one month, and not the other month, which is fine. We have other stuff going on in our lives too.
> It's perfectly fine to build a project in the open and license it openly and not accept open participation.
It's also perfectly fine to build a project in the open, license it openly and try to push for open participation, but later change your mind and not do that anymore. As mentioned, open source comes with no guarantees, what so ever. Let's keep it that way.