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I could think of a million other reasons than someone asking questions in this case. I agree with the entitlement sentiment however. I know no one else who use
by cssmoo 12y ago
I could think of a million other reasons than someone asking questions in this case.
I agree with the entitlement sentiment however. I know no one else who uses .Net who has ever contributed anything other than whining and issue reports to an OSS project inside a typical MS consumer company. Never a patch committed back, never an improvement. Many companies I've worked for forbid such a thing and the only motivation to use the project in the first place is solely that it was free and no one had to go through a PO process.
This is however changing but there are still a lot of pre-OSS managerial types out there.
I suspect Rob's post was the final paper cut hence the explosion.
- jasonkester 12y agoNot sure this is entirely the case. I mean, take me. Sift through my comment history here and you'll see that I'm not really much of an OSS guy. I'm selfish enough, or at least self-interested enough not to hand out my work for free. But even I have put in a handful of pull requests for .NET open source projects (and have released a few projects of my own). There's a lot of room in the gap between me and "open source devotee". I wouldn't be surprised to find that there are a ton of guys there that happen to be good at stuff on the Microsoft stack.
- timlin 12y agoYou don't know me then. I've forked a v1.0 OSS .Net project on bitbucket and am attempting to get it moving forward again. I have a number of pull requests queued, waiting on the original two devs to communicate. So far, they've commented on one ticket, that's it.
- cssmoo 12y agoI don't know you. I wish I did! I wish I knew more people like you, which is what I'm saying.