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Pointing out the flaws in open source software is totally fair, especially when the software is popular enough to have a gravitational pull on the rest of the e
by kweingar 4y ago
Pointing out the flaws in open source software is totally fair, especially when the software is popular enough to have a gravitational pull on the rest of the ecosystem.
Of course, you need to be mindful not to be a jerk to the developers and maintainers, but that is different from criticizing the software.
If criticism of open source software was “problematic entitlement”, then I guess we’d have to swallow our tongues when Linux, Android, Chromium, Firefox, etc. make poor decisions. After all, they’ve helped billions of users, so who are we to question them?
- manmal 4y ago> you need to be mindful not to be a jerk to the developers and maintainers And you don’t think the article ticks that box?
- acdha 4y agoThis article is aggressive but does it really point out a flaw? It alleged a few problems but didn’t substantiate anything (doing so would likely have helped the author learn why the security point is mostly theater) and the bulk of it was describing how it was more work to use an unsupported configuration but still relatively easy because the Homebrew authors documented how to do so. That seems like an appropriate title would be “TIL: how to install Homebrew in a custom path” rather than the hyperbolic one he picked.