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ForceBru | 16 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.

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bigbadfeline|16 days ago

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.

palata|16 days ago

> 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".