Comment by ForceBru
3 days ago
Yeah, I didn't like that attitude either.
> As a user of something open source you are not thereby entitled to anything at all. You are not entitled to contribute. You are not entitled to features. You are not entitled to the attention of others. You are not entitled to having value attached to your complaints. You are not entitled to this explanation.
Sure, I'm not entitled to anything. At the same time, this text essentially says "you don't matter", which I personally don't like.
Right, it sounds like "you don't matter to me", which I read as "Oops, wrong address, go find somebody else".
The bigger problem here is that the OP author is pretending to be a speaker for all open source, I guess there's no other way to justify the uncompromising attitude he somehow developed.
AI will undoubtedly change how OSS works, bot-submited PRs can be overwhelming, authors should not despair though, where there's a will, there's a way.
> I guess there's no other way to justify the uncompromising attitude he somehow developed.
I disagree. When someone open sources code, they give away some of their work for free. That's all, and that's nice.
I really don't get how so many people think that if you give away some of your work for free, then you must give even more work away for free because they consider it "basic decency".
> people think that if you give away some of your work for free, then you must give even more work away for free because they consider it "basic decency".
I didn't say that and I have no moral objections to the hardline attitude you seem to like, I respect that choice.
However, we have to be careful here, every author may have to take a firm stance from time to time, but that's not a good idea for all or most of the time, thus the latter isn't the best for everyone or every project, a lot of authors will be happier with different approaches.
Building a project is a lot about building a community around it and while I understand that not everyone can do it, I prefer those who can for completely rational reasons.
We've entered a time when OSS is becoming more important while the technical part of it is becoming less problematic, in this environment interpersonal skills grow in importance and it would be hard to manage a successful project without them.
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