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Ah yes. The many very successful and super polished streamlined community-driven and well supported forks. That will surely happen. Especially when being born o

by hypfer 4y ago

Ah yes. The many very successful and super polished streamlined community-driven and well supported forks. That will surely happen. Especially when being born out of unreasonable rage about the lack of one specific minor feature with better solutions available for little additional cost. Surely in that fork, people will contribute more than just the bare minimum to scratch their itch. Hell, most users will likely be super motivated highly skilled developers that really want to move the world forward with their selfless contributions. No shitcode. No hidden agenda. No corporate takeover. Just higher ideals. Most definitely it will be the land of milk and honey. The only thing denying users this bliss is the evil maintainer. Jesus man. I encourage you to run a FOSS project for a while. Especially one in the consumer electronics space. I'm sure it will change your perspective on this.

aliqot 4y ago
> Jesus man. I encourage you to run a FOSS project for a while. Especially one in the consumer electronics space. I'm sure it will change your perspective on this. What traits have led you to believe I don't?
- anonbanker 4y ago
  for me, it's the basic presumptions you're making in your posts, the vague fork threats when your ideas are challenged, and the way you hand-wave previous controversies such as weaponized-CoC's. All of which make me think you haven't run a FOSS project. And if you did, I bet it went swimmingly.
  - aliqot 4y ago
    You'd be incorrect. On the order of years.
anonbanker 4y ago
This is exactly the view most of the world has about PrismLauncher for Minecraft; A little UI reorganization and rainbows = land of milk and honey. Nevermind all the FUD being spread about the old project having "malware" in it. Meanwhile, PolyMC still chugs along with updates and features.
fxtentacle 4y ago
Well, in my case I consider myself a "super motivated highly skilled developer" and I was feeling eager to help the project along ... and it seems we started out on the wrong foot for that to ever happen, which may (or may not) have worked out differently with a different project organization structure. aliqot is clearly too optimistic, but your argument here might be a bit too pessimistic. That said, my own experience with offering open source projects was also pretty miserable, due to hidden agendas and corporate takeover.

by hypfer 4y ago

aliqot 4y ago

> Jesus man. I encourage you to run a FOSS project for a while. Especially one in the consumer electronics space. I'm sure it will change your perspective on this. What traits have led you to believe I don't?

anonbanker 4y ago
for me, it's the basic presumptions you're making in your posts, the vague fork threats when your ideas are challenged, and the way you hand-wave previous controversies such as weaponized-CoC's. All of which make me think you haven't run a FOSS project. And if you did, I bet it went swimmingly.
- aliqot 4y ago
  You'd be incorrect. On the order of years.

anonbanker 4y ago

This is exactly the view most of the world has about PrismLauncher for Minecraft; A little UI reorganization and rainbows = land of milk and honey. Nevermind all the FUD being spread about the old project having "malware" in it. Meanwhile, PolyMC still chugs along with updates and features.

fxtentacle 4y ago

Well, in my case I consider myself a "super motivated highly skilled developer" and I was feeling eager to help the project along ... and it seems we started out on the wrong foot for that to ever happen, which may (or may not) have worked out differently with a different project organization structure. aliqot is clearly too optimistic, but your argument here might be a bit too pessimistic. That said, my own experience with offering open source projects was also pretty miserable, due to hidden agendas and corporate takeover.