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When did anyone claim this was a hobbyist project? It looks pretty serious to me.

• Skeime 2y ago
  "Serious" and "hobbyist" are not antonyms.
  • exe34 2y ago
    An important distinction, I'm sure, but entirely beside the point. It's people scratching an itch in their spare time, so we can't expect them to do things the way we want. We can choose to ignore them at best.
    • Skeime 2y ago
      That’s what I wanted to say as well. This might look and even be serious, but it’s still someone’s hobby project as well. They can do whatever they want.
• lelanthran 2y ago
  > When did anyone claim this was a hobbyist project? It looks pretty serious to me. You did, right here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40269321 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40269321 >>>>> Don’t Linux people realize there are a limited number of people to work on these things in their spare time for free? How were you expecting someone to interpret "things in their spare time"? What other meaning did you have in mind for that sentence? Regardless of whether it is a hobby or not, and how that differs from your meaning of "spare time", I still want to know what it is I could say to you that would make you give up your spare time to do unpaid labour for me. In context, I think this is a legitimate question - you've bemoaned the fact of people doing something "in their spare time" instead of being an unpaid employee, so the question "What can *I* say to *you* to make *you* spend *your* spare time being *my* unpaid employee?" still stands If nothing I could possibly say would convince you, that's okay too - just say so, like this "There's nothing you can say to make me your unpaid employee".
• JaDogg 2y ago
  Even if this is a serious project, particular author of this project has a right to build something, and try to carve out an audience for it. Nothing wrong with that.