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Frankly insane and speaks to the entitlement of many users that they are against Micay and GOS on this primarily because their online comms are abrasive; I'm us
by rrvsh 6mo ago
Frankly insane and speaks to the entitlement of many users that they are against Micay and GOS on this primarily because their online comms are abrasive; I'm used to this having seen the same from many in the Minecraft and Skyrim mods communities, but it still stands saying: You are not owed ANYTHING from a free software developer. They can say anything they want to you and revoke the software at any point or anything they wish - they are providing the software for purely no reason but they want to. If Micay wants to be rude on main he has absolutely every right to do so; if you don't like it, don't use his software. He's not a steward or paragon of virtue just because he has a popular software project, and it's extremely easy to stand on a soapbox and say "If I was in that position, I'd be so much better!" To all the detractors in this thread, I beg you: go make software and give back instead.
P.S. I avoided making any statements about what I personally think about Micay and the GOS team's behaviour above because I don't use it and have never looked into it before reading this article, but from looking at the comments, the WIRED article, the forum thread linked in this post, and some cursory research, it just seems like they are a popular software project that is at odds with many powerful actors with obvious motivations against their existence and popularity - if they are constantly combative online instead of being friendly, don't you think part or all of it may be because they have to defend themselves against attacks instead of having the freedom to be friendly like say SQLite/FFMPEG/Rust/other free software projects? I'm admittedly new to HN but this entitlement and refusal to empathise with the people giving you free shit seems insanely out of character
- antonvs 6mo ago[flagged]
- DANmode 6mo agoGood projects follow their mission statement.
- antonvs 6mo agoWhich part of the mission statement mandates publishing rants as official public communications?
- oh_fiddlesticks 6mo agoIt doesn't really matter, because their target audience does not care about that.
- fsflover 6mo agoYes, because such move decreases the target audience accordingly.
- handedness 6mo agoAnd yet, you do the same.
- fsflover 6mo agoI don't understand what you mean. Did I add rants to GrapheneOS docs?
- antonvs 6mo agoNo true Scotsman. It’s sad to see this childishness around what should be an important project.