Comment by wokwokwok

> I am an open source developer. I am familiar with the criticism. It's fine.

Dude. If you're a woman and you make jokes about how women should be at home cleaning not being engineers, it's not "fine", it just makes you a dickhead. Even if you're a woman. The same goes here.

If you work an open source, that doesn't give you a free moral entitlement to tell other people their work is crap, should have more features, should have the one feature you personally want for whatever reason.

You don't like it?

Too bad. It's not for you then. Don't use it.

Be respectful of others; the contribution they make, the effort they go to.

It costs you literally nothing.

I think the issue here is that your critique is way out of proportion to reality; Calibre is... fine. It's not great; but it does the job perfectly well for lots of people. It does lots of things. It does most of them fine. It does some well, some badly. I could say the same thing about the gimp. You come off as just having an axe to grind here for no good reason; and negative comments like this do cause people to stop contributing.

If you don't like it, just.. don't. use it.