> would their reaction or their decision be better if they earnt a million quid per issue? No, so let's not bother with such facile excuses. It would be super

> would their reaction or their decision be better if they earnt a million quid per issue? No, so let's not bother with such facile excuses. It would be super relevant if they got paid a million per issue by the community because then there would be an expectation of receiving something in exchange. Project maintainers don't owe you anything, the whole point of FOSS is that this doesn't matter because you can just fork it and make your own opinionated changes to circumvent differences of opinion instead of achieving nothing but negativity by hand-wringing over tone. > and I didn't criticise them for turning down a request but the way they reacted to a request. We can tone police the OP of that thread as well if you like. The way the OP effectively says: > this [what currently happens] is just bad > this [what I want] is much more sensible has the same capacity to appear aggressive in nature.