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It's not open source because the open source "community" is a liability and you want them far away from you at all times. I'm not trying to be mean or sarcasti
by naikrovek 6y ago
It's not open source because the open source "community" is a liability and you want them far away from you at all times.
I'm not trying to be mean or sarcastic or anything. Just look at how maintainers are treated for a week and you'll see exactly what I mean.
- metiscus 6y agoWhile I understand the intent of your comment.. I think your unfortunate word choice may cause some bad optics.
- naikrovek 6y agoWell, I'm not a CEO, so I don't care about optics.
- chronogram 6y agoYou should say what words are unfortunately chosen, because you can't expect every reader to know the current list of unfortunates.
- bawolff 6y agoSo its like every other customer-service job. Just with less pay ;) Just because something is open source, does not mean you have to engage with the "community". Slapping GPL on some code on a git repo somewhere, with a big sign saying if you don't like it you have the right to fork, so please fork off, is also open source, and a totally ok thing to do if you don't want to develop a community [Open source maintainers don't owe the world anything beyond what they freely want to give it]