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> The most common belief open source maintainers have is that offering something for free gives them the right to some of their users’ money. Opening line. No.
by blitzar 2y ago
> The most common belief open source maintainers have is that offering something for free gives them the right to some of their users’ money.
Opening line. No.
- lnxg33k1 2y agoI've never met any maintainer feeling entitled to their users' money, most commonly I've seen users feeling entitled to support, premium support and 247 support, and bespoke features, from open source maintainers, wtf is this guy talking about, just few weeks ago there were people from microsoft expecting priority fixes from ffmpeg for free
- ReleaseCandidat 2y ago> I've never met any maintainer feeling entitled to their users' money Exactly. What I'd like to see more is: "There is a bug that $COMPANY wants fixed ASAP - how about you pay me or one of your employees for _that_?"
- Ygg2 2y agoIt's important to sometimes remind entitled people to the four Effs of FOSS. Fix it, Fund it, Fork it, Fuck off/Flee (in that order).
- michaelmrose 2y agoThis line is so disconnected from reality I wonder if he's using a LLM to write blog posts.
- andrepd 2y agoI think he just drank the capitalist cool-aid: everyhing is a financial transaction, nobody can ever do anything for reasons other than selfish financial interest.