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I have all sorts of open source projects including services I run as a charity for thousands of users. If I'm going to build something for people to use, then

• palata 1y ago
  This is your opinion, and you are free to do whatever the fuck you want, precisely because you do it for free, in your free time. I don't come telling you that your projects suck or that you apparently can't be bothered to mention them on your profile. It has a lot to do with the tone you use. Had you said "It's a great project, I wonder if they thought about adding X", I wouldn't have said anything. But you said "Man, nobody at LibriVox can be bothered to", which is disrespectful. The fact that you don't seem to realise suggests that you are part of those people that make open source toxic (often not in purpose). I have many examples where people came to my open source project and heavily complained because they struggled with something, or pressured me into implementing a feature for them (for free, obviously) or into changing the licence, etc. And when I tell them how toxic their behaviour is, many times they hadn't realise (some apologise, some are jerks). Still their behaviour is toxic. When people do stuff for free, we should at least be respectful.