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This makes sense until you consider how much time many open source devs spend maintaining popular products, and the kind of ungrateful people they often have to
by soulofmischief 4y ago
This makes sense until you consider how much time many open source devs spend maintaining popular products, and the kind of ungrateful people they often have to deal with.
- tristor 4y agoThe beauty of not being paid for your time and releasing something as an unwarranted open source project, is that you can choose of your own volition without obligation how much time to dedicate to it and how you wish to respond to ungrateful people. You cannot, however, change human nature. There are many people that wish you could change human nature, and that money was sufficiently powerful to do so, but it is not. In fact, when people pay for something, they become even more entitled while still remaining ungrateful. I would like to dissuade you from the notion that customer service is somehow easier and more reasonable than dealing with non-paying randos on the Internet.
- acedTrex 4y agoThey don't have to spend that time nor do they have to entertain rude people/requests. The beauty of open source is that it is an expectationless expedition