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> better than people who don't care IME it goes deeper than that: caring is ruthlessly stamped out by crushing bureaucratic processes. Results don't matter, w

> better than people who don't care IME it goes deeper than that: caring is ruthlessly stamped out by crushing bureaucratic processes. Results don't matter, what matters is never being responsible for a mistake. Fans can fix minor mistakes - in corporate America, even the smallest misjudgment is fatal. The only way to win is to never actually do anything, but keep up the appearance of being busy.

sumtechguy 2y ago
I think it is more simple. They really do not care much about it. Lets say you sell a product. You have had 3 revisions of that product. Support on that item is very minimal. The current version is what you sell and that is it. The previous versions are just historical interesting things. Properly archiving it and cataloging it takes time and money. Does talking about your older items sell you more items? Maybe maybe not. It is just a thing you sell. Not any sort of historical artifact to be preserved. It is just how you make a living scraping the margin. But to a collector or 'fan'. All 3 hold importance to your collection. All of the details/metadata are mapped out so you know why v1 is worse/better/interesting from v2/v3. What is worse in many of the 'fan' cases is you find it is usually 1-2 people mapping that stuff out. They map out what they find interesting. Many also get heaps of verbal and legal abuse from both the companies and other people on the net. So they bail out and whatever 'fan' site came out of it, rots. Like one project I found a few months ago. Tons of stuff mapped out but some errors here and there, no big deal. I have a set of patches ready to go to fix it. But the orig author has ghosted. They got tired of tons of abuse from other 'fans'. Frankly what I see in the previous requests I want nothing to do with it. So I keep my stuff private.
- commandlinefan 2y ago
  > They really do not care much about it Or rather, the people who do care aren't the ones making the decisions.
- datavirtue 2y ago
  I released a complete and comprehensive software package for free around fifteen years ago. I was threatened, accosted and cussed out on the phone numerous times for my generosity. I have since taught myself to be greedy on purpose, obscuring and ignoring my true nature.
pjc50 2y ago
Process was invented as a means to get useful output from people who don't care. Of which there's an unlimited supply.

sumtechguy 2y ago

I think it is more simple. They really do not care much about it. Lets say you sell a product. You have had 3 revisions of that product. Support on that item is very minimal. The current version is what you sell and that is it. The previous versions are just historical interesting things. Properly archiving it and cataloging it takes time and money. Does talking about your older items sell you more items? Maybe maybe not. It is just a thing you sell. Not any sort of historical artifact to be preserved. It is just how you make a living scraping the margin. But to a collector or 'fan'. All 3 hold importance to your collection. All of the details/metadata are mapped out so you know why v1 is worse/better/interesting from v2/v3. What is worse in many of the 'fan' cases is you find it is usually 1-2 people mapping that stuff out. They map out what they find interesting. Many also get heaps of verbal and legal abuse from both the companies and other people on the net. So they bail out and whatever 'fan' site came out of it, rots. Like one project I found a few months ago. Tons of stuff mapped out but some errors here and there, no big deal. I have a set of patches ready to go to fix it. But the orig author has ghosted. They got tired of tons of abuse from other 'fans'. Frankly what I see in the previous requests I want nothing to do with it. So I keep my stuff private.

commandlinefan 2y ago
> They really do not care much about it Or rather, the people who do care aren't the ones making the decisions.
datavirtue 2y ago
I released a complete and comprehensive software package for free around fifteen years ago. I was threatened, accosted and cussed out on the phone numerous times for my generosity. I have since taught myself to be greedy on purpose, obscuring and ignoring my true nature.

pjc50 2y ago

Process was invented as a means to get useful output from people who don't care. Of which there's an unlimited supply.