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It's really surprising how many people don't understand this. I hang out in a support channel for an open source app, and people are downright offended when I t
by silencio 18y ago
It's really surprising how many people don't understand this. I hang out in a support channel for an open source app, and people are downright offended when I tell them that whatever feature they want they'll have to implement themselves because all the people capable of working on the project are uninterested or too busy to do anything, and there's a longer list of more important fixes/features that are wanted. Not just a "oh, I understand", but an outright "what the fuck? I don't know how to code", "this 'community' is BS", "what a frigid bitch..." and more. All because I told them that the app was open source so they should consider doing it themselves.
(Funnily enough, there's a competing app that is not open source or free, and they're still not doing a great job of updating the app and adding requested features for paid customers either..)
Anyway, my two cents is that people shouldn't expect donations to make the developer(s) scratch their itches. A donation is a donation. Maybe some devs and projects would be more willing to look into things for you after one, but unless they explicitly have such a policy, I wouldn't expect it to happen.