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If I was painting a picture, and some well-meaning observer came up to me and said "I think the bottom left corner should be red; I want to hang a copy of this
by marcus_holmes 4y ago
If I was painting a picture, and some well-meaning observer came up to me and said "I think the bottom left corner should be red; I want to hang a copy of this on my wall and it needs to co-ordinate with my colour scheme" then I would rightly tell them to go away and paint their own picture, or pay me to paint the picture they want.
Code is no different: you only get to tell me how my code should look and feel, or what features it has, if you pay me for it. If I'm creating it for the joy of creating it, then I get to say what it is and what it does. And it's utterly my right to refuse your money, block your comments, and continue doing something with my code that you don't like.
At least in OS you can fork my repo. Then it's your code and you can do what you like with it.