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What I notice personally is that many users of OSS these days are professional programmers using open source on their corporate jobs. They are trying to push th
by coliveira 6y ago
What I notice personally is that many users of OSS these days are professional programmers using open source on their corporate jobs. They are trying to push their requirements and expectations on people that are not paid to deal with them.
- imtringued 6y agoThe company can implement their own feature requests. I've opened some issues on some frameworks and when the maintainers agree with the issue the first thing they ask you is if you can submit a PR. Alternatively you can wait or sometimes pay for high priority handling. If you are unlucky you might wait forever because other people create issues too and those might be more important than yours.
- coliveira 6y agoThis is possible, but more frequently what happens is that these professional developers will write bad reviews (in HN and elsewhere) about a project because they don't want or don't have time to support their wishes. This causes tremendous friction and makes it more difficult to maintain OSS these days.