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That's not true at all. You can pay for amateur bullshit, and you can get professional software and support for free (and free as in freedom).
by onli 7y ago
That's not true at all. You can pay for amateur bullshit, and you can get professional software and support for free (and free as in freedom).
- buzzkillington 7y agoMy Ethernet is stuck in ipv6, professionally tell me how to fix it, for free.
- saagarjha 7y agoSure, could you provide some more detail?
- geofft 7y agoThat's not an open source project any of us maintain. Also, there are expectations for both sides of a professional interaction. My employer buys various fancy networking equipment for lots of money and we absolutely wouldn't expect an answer for that question.
- onli 7y agoI actually did that for years in a linux forum.
- oefrha 7y agoYou can get professional software and support for free, until you can’t. This “you’ve provided me free support once, so it’s your obligation to support me for free indefinitely whenever I ask” attitude has certainly contributed to my open source exhaustion as a maintainer.
- shkkmo 7y agoWell, good luck getting a company you paid for a product to provide indefinite support, large professional software companies cancel projects and EOL software all the time.
- Touche 7y agoYou only have a right to complain about the amateur bullshit you paid for, though.
- endorphone 7y agoYou have a right to complain about anything and everything. For instance, I don't pay a penny for HN but I can complain that these discussions sometimes become self-congratulatory prattle where angry people carrying a giant chip on their shoulder posit absurd, completely ridiculous notions and they're supported in their group delusion by like-minded parrots. You don't have to agree with my complaint, but nor do I need your or anyone else's permission to hold it.