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>this is assuming bad faith and it's not helpful. When is it appropriate to assume bad faith? I think assuming bad faith can be very helpful if only because it
by traverseda 5y ago
>this is assuming bad faith and it's not helpful.
When is it appropriate to assume bad faith? I think assuming bad faith can be very helpful if only because it tells you what to not support or depend on.
Saying "you have to use our library and also fix it for free" is a dick move regardless.
- zxzax 5y agoIf some person openly said to you that they wanted to hurt you, then I would assume bad faith. Please let someone know if that happens, in most open source projects that would probably be a code of conduct violation. I don't think people who say such things often would be very welcome in GNOME. >I think assuming bad faith can be very helpful if only because it tells you what to not support or depend on. I'm sorry I don't get what you're saying. You can decide not to support or depend on something without (incorrectly) assuming bad faith. This stuff is all open source, nobody can force you to use a library that you're not interested to use.
- traverseda 5y ago> This stuff is all open source, nobody can force you to use a library that you're not interested to use. That's not strictly speaking true, especially when politics and money get involved. Unless you're using a very loose definition of "force" which doesn't include any kind of network effect at all.
- zxzax 5y agoI feel your pain, I wish it were cheaper to develop software, but sadly the costs to compete with Microsoft and Apple are great. GNOME and KDE and such are already giving you all the code basically for free, I don't know what else they could do to help you out there. Accepting all feature requests that come their way is not a solution, because that usually tends to increase development costs even more.