If you do anything publicly and give it away for free you will always have people complaining about it and undervaluing your work (you're giving it away for fre

If you do anything publicly and give it away for free you will always have people complaining about it and undervaluing your work (you're giving it away for free after all). This is true of software or anything else (even if it's not free: retail work is hell). Unfortunately FOSS is notoriously bad for this, whenever someone complains in a rude way and I'm at my limit I tend to respond with: "feel free to use different software" — that's it. You don't owe them anything, and sometimes even that response is an unwarranted kindness. As Fred Rogers is famously quoted: "When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping." Look for the helpers. Try to ignore the detractors (not always possible, unfortunately). It can be very hard, but in the end I still find it worth it. Maybe someday I won't. If you are frustrated with legal issues around OSS you can make a small contribution to an organization like https://softwarefreedom.org/ https://softwarefreedom.org/, or if you're looking for general software advocacy you can contribute financially or with time to the EFF (https://www.eff.org/about/opportunities/volunteer/coding-with-eff https://www.eff.org/about/opportunities/volunteer/coding-wit...)... there are a lot of helpers beyond these, and you can be one too.