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Are we still using that godawful argument? * Not contributing and complaining about issues * Not voting and complaining about the candidate elected * Not mak
by pikzen 10y ago
Are we still using that godawful argument?
* Not contributing and complaining about issues
* Not voting and complaining about the candidate elected
* Not making movies and complaining about the special effects
* Not writing books and complaining about the story
* Not building cars and complaining yours broke down
* Not having prepared food and complaining someone served you burnt pasta and uncooked chicked
* ...
Common point in all of those: they're all stupid arguments.
That argument has never been, is never and never will be valid. Contributing takes time. Maybe said person complaining is fixing bugs in software that you're using. Or maybe said person doesn't contribute at all to any OSS. And that's still perfectly fine, because when you put out software and present it as the second coming of the Christ (or Stallman, depending of your deity of choice), yep, you have a responsibility to fix it. Or to not fix it and to tell the users to sod off. Users have absolutely every right to complain. As a maintainer, you have every right to ignore them.