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> it's your duty ... > it's your responsibility ... If open source project owners owe people exactly nothing, then certainly open source project users have ne
by empthought 10y ago
> it's your duty ...
> it's your responsibility ...
If open source project owners owe people exactly nothing, then certainly open source project users have neither the duty nor the responsibility to contribute anything back, either.
- Thrillington 10y agoThe duty and responsibilities given to users are real. If you want help from a project maintainer to fix your submitted issue you have a duty to provide them enough information to solve it. If your project has a dependency on a library it's your responsibility to your own code to make sure that proposed fixes work.
- empthought 10y agoI don't think you understand what a "duty" is. A duty is an ethical and moral requirement. Creating the conditions for someone else to help me most easily is not a duty; it's just common sense.
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- hiddentag 10y agoThe vast majority of open source projects are a volunteer effort. Either you contribute and better the software or support its community, or you don't. But if you choose the latter you can't complain about the software.
- empthought 10y agoI certainly can complain about the software. Obviously everyone else is free to ignore me. Even though I use all of their software, I honestly don't care about the Linux, Java, Node, Emacs, or Python "communities" and it is frankly silly for open source developers to expect me to. I have real communities and responsibilities to devote unpaid labor to.