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I'll have a bit of a contrarian opinion here: if you publish some software there is at least an implied notion that it allows to solve some problem (license ter
by ajnin 5y ago
I'll have a bit of a contrarian opinion here: if you publish some software there is at least an implied notion that it allows to solve some problem (license terms notwithstanding). For example if you go to the home page for this blog then you will find a rather well made page that might get you the impression that you can find here some piece of software that allows to download APKs. Now, if it actually does not quite work because of bugs that you refuse to even list somewhere because that would be "work", then you take the responsibility to mislead people and make them lose their time based on incomplete information. Yes your time is important, but other people's too. When you unleash something upon the world, then you have some responsibility for it, at least morally. For context I do have some minor open source projects that very few people use and I allow bug reports but I just ignore them until I have the time and motivation to get back to it in an hypothetical future. In the meantime it serves as information for others.
- JodieBenitez 5y agoThousands of companies release open source stuff in the hope of selling support for it. It's a commercial bait, a perfectly fine strategy. The author does nothing more, why should we expect anything more ?
- hakre 5y agoWell, many thousands of workers write and maintain software and eventually its release is under free software, getting paid by the hour. It's just working, why should we expect anything more? A worker can't do anything more and there is not even a commercial bait for her.