[bayindirh]

I'll kindly disagree, and put out an offer.

If it's shallow and uninspired, why not make a better version? The medium is freer than Free Software. A sharpened hammer, a pane of laminated glass, and some time.

How hard can it be?

[nightfly]

> The medium is freer than Free Software

$$$$$ for supplies, you could probably take up oil painting for cheaper.

[bayindirh]

A simple hammer you'll sharpen, maybe a bog standard angle grinder. These are the cheap ones, and all you need.

Bigger panes of laminated glass is expensive, but you can start small, no? I'd go to the local glass shops and ask for their scraps, for example.

However, the point is not the cost of the supplies, but supporting the argument by putting out something better than the thing being criticized.

[jerf]

There is no obligation for a critic to produce better work than what is being criticized and it is a cheap and dishonest rhetorical tactic to imply otherwise.

I 100% guarantee you have criticized things without trying to produce better work yourself. It is a deeply dishonest standard.