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> Just because you made your source code available does not mean I'll do your QA for free. I wrote some software to address a need; and made the source availab
by einpoklum 6y ago
> Just because you made your source code available does not mean I'll do your QA for free.
I wrote some software to address a need; and made the source available. I made some effort to make it usable to others - but not a huge amount of it.
Now, it's your turn to do some free QA to make that software usable for you, and more-usable in general. So the motivations here are:
1. Your own need / self-interest.
2. The public benefit.
- AntiImperialist 6y agoOR, you wrote the software that you don't need or use it yourself specifically with the intention to make money selling support and customization and released it as open source because you want to get users who use it for free to do the QA, Development and marketing for you for free. I, as a random user, can't know which is which or care and most of the time can't be bothered.
- einpoklum 6y agoYou're right that the developer should make it clearer which case it is.