this is all true. and yes, one should never be rude and one should always be respectful of others' time and efforts. but there is indeed another side to the eq

this is all true. and yes, one should never be rude and one should always be respectful of others' time and efforts. but there is indeed another side to the equation: software does not succeed in a vacuum. it is a symbiosis between users and developers that make software great. a software package gains momentum because users invest time and effort into making use of it or building on it. these investments are nontrivial! the maintainers enjoy notoriety and potential financial benefits (sometimes massive) as a result of this notoriety. so while yeah, entitled attitudes on oss issue trackers are pretty odious, so are illusions that all open source software is built upon a world of altruism. there's money involved, and sometimes quite a lot of it. that said, we do need better funding models. one thing that open source does teach us is that some people do their best work outside of a classic corporate structure. some of that best work is literally the best work in software. the problem with funding is that it typically comes with hooks which then drive the projects towards what you see coming out of most corporate environments, so the challenge is to figure out how to fund open source software in a way that doesn't actually influence or drive its design.