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Some open source software users feel entitled instead of grateful for what they receive. Rich Hickey's "Open Source is Not About You" essay gives perspective a

Some open source software users feel entitled instead of grateful for what they receive. Rich Hickey's "Open Source is Not About You" essay gives perspective about the creator / maintainer point of view: https://gist.github.com/richhickey/1563cddea1002958f96e7ba9519972d9 https://gist.github.com/richhickey/1563cddea1002958f96e7ba95... I would offer a polite decline and point the user to the essay.

stingraycharles 4y ago
Yeah maybe, I’ve had a few PRs closed by them with just “Not interested.” as an answer, after spending days chasing some bugs and fixing them. Until this day I don’t know why they were rejected, and have no idea what I did wrong / how I could have improved them. They’re pretty rude / brash in communication, which is fine, but I wouldn’t look at them for an example of great OSS stewardship.