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Hey, it's open. It can be forked. If anyone is willing to maintain a frozen branch (preferably one of those where Designer still worked), I want to know.
by persnickety 3y ago
Hey, it's open. It can be forked.
If anyone is willing to maintain a frozen branch (preferably one of those where Designer still worked), I want to know.
- halJordan 3y agoHonestly the open-source community is one of the most unironically capitalist communities we have. Do devs have social responsibility? Nope, fork it. Do devs have a responsibility to take input from the people their product has locked in? Nope, fork it. Do devs have a responsibility to maintain what they produce & present? Nope, fork it. If only forking it was a good answer, we'd have solved so many by now.
- persnickety 3y agoThe Qt company has been somewhat hostile to the spirit of open source (see the drama around closing the Qt library for a year since release), so I'm not sure how close it is to the canonical core of the community, and especially to any obligations that might come from that. Either way, there is no mechanism for accountability in open source other than peer pressure or reputation. Qt Company doesn't care about that a lot. They care about making buck first and foremost, operating in the "capitalist" realm. So the solution I propose is using that playbook too. In a broader view, forking is telling people "you are not our devs any more, we're seizing the means of production", which I think is rather anti-capitalist.