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Read another way, abusive organizations and project maintainers can now block users.

• hacknat 11y ago
  It's a marketplace of ideas, no? Talent will generally avoid abuse...
  • broodbucket 11y ago
    I think a better counterargument is that open source allows forking - if there's a problem with a community you can just make a community around an existing codebase.
  • woodman 11y ago
    I wonder where that rug ever ended up.
• PhasmaFelis 11y ago
  That seems like a self-correcting problem.
• geofft 11y ago
  That seems like a good thing. If an organization or project maintainer is going to be abusive towards me, I'd rather know that at the outset, than spend time writing a good pull request or issue and then deal with the hostility. I'd certainly rather know that at the outset than put the project in production, become tied to it, and then realize that I'm unable to contribute to it productively. If they block me preemptively, I can decide to investigate alternative projects to invest time into, or perhaps I can decide to fork the project (any free software or Open Source license requires non-discrimination in licensees), git push it to my own account, and attempt to run a non-abusive community around it. Or perhaps I can decide to reimplement it myself.