I also am not surprised that anything other than adulation of Stallman's testicles is furiously downvoted by basement denziens. Truth is you'll get a better r

I also am not surprised that anything other than adulation of Stallman's testicles is furiously downvoted by basement denziens. Truth is you'll get a better reception without pointless angry tripe. I've no way of knowing what your OSS experiences have been, so I'll take you at your word. However, a broad statement such as this: "Most projects won't accept it unless you join their cult, endure hazing, chat about politics and accept their belief system, and adulate their leaders and trolls." ... strikes me as patent bullshit. Maybe most projects you've tried to contribute to have turned out this way, but then I have to wonder if the problem is with the project owners or if maybe you approach things with an incredibly dismal attitude. Some project owners and communities may suck, but most? You'll have to provide something more than bitter anecdote. The biggest problems I've had with OSS projects is not getting an answer to questions. There are a good number of "works for me" code repos that simply refuse to build on my system no matter what dependency dance I do. If that's the case I go look for an alternative (though on Linux it's typically not something I can purchase). Mostly I get things to almost work and get stuck, and then join a forum or mailing list or something to get some help. Help tends to be of two forms: None at all, or friendly and pragmatic. I've offered patches to a few projects, and everyone has been very nice about it, even when I forget to include unit tests or fucked up their coding convention. Maybe I've just been lucky. As the maintainer of several OSS projects I empathize with those I contact for help ro offer patches. Time is often short, and most people aren't getting paid to support their OSS projects. Most of this is all a gift, and when a gift turns out to be not quite what you hoped for better to just move on and be grateful for you have, not bitter about what you didn't get.