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Please remember: each open source project is a different person, sometimes literally. That they share licensing ideologies does not necessarily mean the people
by tomxor 6y ago
Please remember: each open source project is a different person, sometimes literally. That they share licensing ideologies does not necessarily mean the people producing them behave the same way. That said it's fairly well known that the pressure of hoards of obligated users on popular projects can easily push the most patient of authors over the edge.
As some anecdata: My experience in various open source projects as a submitter of bugs, fixes and features has been welcomed with respect and understanding even when we don't agree or I turn out to be the ignorant one.
- generalpass 6y agoMy comment is specifically regarding users, not contributors, and the intent is not to generalize across all projects (though many users will do this anyway). I have seen projects where devs are completely behind a wall, and that's fine, but I don't understand make something for people to use, free of charge, get angry at when lots of people use it and have questions about using it.