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I read this and still don’t understand what is the issue behind the drama. If you don’t want to support it, then don’t; if someone stole your public domain work
by flyinglizard 7y ago
I read this and still don’t understand what is the issue behind the drama. If you don’t want to support it, then don’t; if someone stole your public domain work, contact the EFF or more realistically just understand it’s cost of doing business.
We all get tired at some point and move on, you don’t owe anyone anything. And thanks for the library!
- cryptonector 7y agoIt's not "public domain work". The "drama" is that the community abused the author, so the author quit providing free labor to the community.
- flyinglizard 7y agoWould he still be “abused” if he refrained from opening his inbox? Or were there protesters outside his door?
- Gibbon1 7y agoPersonalty think if Debian won't change the support email then he should just put in an auto response listing the Debian's maintainers email addresses.
- exocos 7y agoAs far as I know, Debian does not ship WiringPI. Debian does not even have an official RPi image. What has any Debian maintainer to do with this?
- daveFNbuck 7y agoSo he should stop using email in order to keep doing unpaid work?
- stjohnswarts 7y agoHe wanted to let the users of his software know why he was quitting. Not everything has to be honey soaked drivel. He gave his opinion. It had a little bit of well deserved ranting in there but it did let everyone know that the library is deprecated and you're now on your own with it.
- mannykannot 7y agoIt is a useful cautionary tale for someone contemplating doing something similar.