Comment by gfodor

5 years ago

At some point open source got morphed into being about free as in beer and gratis volunteer work by generous souls. But its origin and what the licenses themselves are about are freedom to read and freedom to modify. The entitlement that has crept in and the social contracts that seem to have formed around expectations for people writing Free code are concerning.

Shame on people who forget this, and demand more than those freedoms from authors who so generously grant them to others. Based upon what I’ve read, I would have checked out from this project as the author well before they did given the harassment they’ve apparently been getting for not merging PRs into their repo.