> I won the lottery, therfore everyone should quit their jobs and just buy lottery tickets Come on, it's very far from what I said. What's more, I'm not partic

> I won the lottery, therfore everyone should quit their jobs and just buy lottery tickets Come on, it's very far from what I said. What's more, I'm not particularly lucky. Software companies are struggling to hire, including OSS ones. They are looking for people. It's not like lottery at all. > So what you're really saying is: internal company software should not exist I was saying something implying this. That was wrong. My rephrased claim includes internal company software. What's important for me is that the user of a program has control over it. A company has control over its internal software. I still think it would also be better if companies released their software when it can be generalized, so the wheel is not reinvented at every company. But people and companies should be free to write their own code for their own use and not release it. What I'm against is programs for which the users don't have control on the code. >> Anyway, people releasing their software as free software do it willingly. That's strange to say that their software does not respect them. > I'm sure you can find many examples of people abandoning open source projects because they're not making enough to live on and their users are being toxic to them. You know exactly what I mean. I know what you mean, and nobody deserves this, but this is not most open source projects. You were claiming OSS was incompatible with developer-respecting. That's a stretch. But that could hint that OSS is not enough, not that OSS is incompatible with developer-respecting. I'd argue entitled users are the issue here and as a society, we ought to do a better job of educating people not to be such assholes.