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You extended the analogy beyond the point it was addressing; if you do that you might as well start talking about the obesity epidemic or food allergies or wha
by tpoacher 4y ago
You extended the analogy beyond the point it was addressing; if you do that you might as well start talking about the obesity epidemic or food allergies or whatnot.
The point being made is that people getting upset when they are made to feel like their altruism is taken advantage of, let alone abused to ends that are against the spirit of the original work, and getting disillusioned and abandoning projects of love, is quite a natural and altogether human reaction.
OP said they didn't get why anyone would/should be particularly upset by megacorps using their open source software in perhaps not the manner originally envisaged. I was simply trying to come up with a more relatable example to relate why. The induplicability of food is completely irrelevant here.
- Chris2048 4y agoThe point is that "spirit of the original work" needs to explicit, not everyone who uses a software should have to have personal insight into the mind of the dev. > The induplicability of food is completely irrelevant here. Then in what sense is the metaphor valuable? It was merely meant to depict an emotion that the humans on this forum will already be well aware of?