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I believe there is something called forking. Instead of complaining , fix the tools yourself and make a pull request. The current state of the industry is a lo
by camus2 13y ago
I believe there is something called forking. Instead of complaining , fix the tools yourself and make a pull request.
The current state of the industry is a lot of people are complaining about the freebies they get without contributing back to the open source.
- idlewan 13y agoSometimes people can't contribute back to the projects (lack of time, lack of wilingness to create a fork + put a 'marketing page' up and convince others...). Constructive criticism (like in this article) is a valid way of trying to convince others that a better way is possible. He is cleary stating the use cases he would like the tools to fix. Shooting down the critic by saying 'so fix it yourself/so fork off/so go code another lib out of the 30 000 that exists' is, on the other end, not constructive. Do you have better arguments?
- true_religion 13y agoLack of willingness isn't really an argument for "I can't contribute". It's more of a statement of "I don't want to".