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> horror stories about demanding 'customers' who don't pay you anything but somehow expect you to drop everything But isn’t that just a matter of setting your
by krisoft 4y ago
> horror stories about demanding 'customers' who don't pay you anything but somehow expect you to drop everything
But isn’t that just a matter of setting your own boundaries? Someone demands somethign you don’t want to deliver you say “no” and that is it. If they are unpleasant about it you block or filter them.
You don’t own them anything. Not legally, and not morally. Just say no.
Or if you feel like it today say yes, and when the circumstances change say no. No biggie. You didn’t promise anyone anything. Any expectation on their part is a figment of their imagination.
Just don’t wrap yourself into pretzels over other people being unreasonable.
- CJefferson 4y agoI think that is how it should work but it seems if one day you decide to stop supporting your software, or stop distributing it, then you get a "left-pad" or "log4j" situation and the whole world decides you owe them supported available software.
- bawolff 4y agoI don't think any of those things are comparable to requirements to support. Left-Pad: dev deleted their software name in a package manger. Nobody demanded any maintenance, however intentionally screwing other people over is entirely different. Dev could have just never touched left-pad again and everyone would have been fine with it. log4j: That was a maintained package, so i don't really see the comparison at all. So yeah, no requirement to maintain your software. Taking a positive action to screw other people over is going to get those people mad at you. You're free to do nothing, you're not free to intentionally cause problems without hurting your reputation.