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I have found the loudest complainers almost always end up the ones who are not paying.

• technofiend 3y ago
  OpenBSD's famously crusty owner along with his leads short-circuit this sort of entitlement by asking "If you have a complaint, where's your commit to fix it?"
  • NovemberWhiskey 3y ago
    Honestly, I loathe that attitude. Maybe OpenBSD has such a limited audience that the overlap between "people who discover problems" and "people who can fix problems" is perfect, but generally it's not.
    • Salgat 3y ago
      To add, there's a massive difference between legitimate criticism and ungrateful entitlement. Complaints, even bad ones, are a crucial part of the feedback loop. If 99% of users say "this is terrible" with no elaboration, sure it doesn't tell you much, but it sure as shit means that there is probably something wrong that needs to be fixed.
      • dspillett 3y ago
        Or it could mean that the 99%, or a large part thereof, have chosen the wrong tool for their task, which is a problem for them to fix not the tool's maker.
        • Salgat 3y ago
          Could mean a lot of things, could mean nothing at all.
    • ChrisMarshallNY 3y ago
      Well, there's a drawback to that attitude, in the realm of "unintended consequences." I wrote a little article about that: https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/problems-and-solutions/ https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/problems-and-solutio...