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I'm always bewildered by such aggressive reactions to things people put out for free. So you don't like it and won't use it, but why do you find it necessary t

I'm always bewildered by such aggressive reactions to things people put out for free. So you don't like it and won't use it, but why do you find it necessary to insult the people who worked on it ? Are they trying to steal something from you or cheat you into giving up your freedom or something ? I just don't get it. We are all developers and we all know how hard it is to make something.. anything. And knowing the struggle I go through to get things to completion, I have great respect for people who actually finish things and share them with the world. Even if I won't use the thing and find it useless, I still think they deserve at least a word of support, not a dismissive rant.

scrollaway 11y ago
> why do you find it necessary to insult the people who worked on it I insulted the work, not the people who worked on it. And I didn't gratuitously insult it, I've given further reasoning elsewhere in the thread: It's an obscure fork of a massive project, on an outdated version, with no chance of further support, no VCS, no discussions, no background and no author here to back any of it up. It wasn't aggressive. It certainly was negative. But from what I've seen, this was never a space where your project will be cuddled. Nor is open source in general a place you get a free ride just because "you don't have to use it if you don't like it". When one puts their work forward, it's either to either receive criticism on it or popularize it. In either case, negative criticism is a good thing. Like I said, I didn't criticize it just to be negative - if you go through my previous posts, you'll find that I try to be overwhelmingly positive, even to projects I find pointless. But this here is not "just pointless", it's a fork. Forks are divisive, and this is a fork which does not bring any net positives and which has no way of ever being merged back into the project, given that it's based on an outdated version and model of Qt.

scrollaway 11y ago

> why do you find it necessary to insult the people who worked on it I insulted the work, not the people who worked on it. And I didn't gratuitously insult it, I've given further reasoning elsewhere in the thread: It's an obscure fork of a massive project, on an outdated version, with no chance of further support, no VCS, no discussions, no background and no author here to back any of it up. It wasn't aggressive. It certainly was negative. But from what I've seen, this was never a space where your project will be cuddled. Nor is open source in general a place you get a free ride just because "you don't have to use it if you don't like it". When one puts their work forward, it's either to either receive criticism on it or popularize it. In either case, negative criticism is a good thing. Like I said, I didn't criticize it just to be negative - if you go through my previous posts, you'll find that I try to be overwhelmingly positive, even to projects I find pointless. But this here is not "just pointless", it's a fork. Forks are divisive, and this is a fork which does not bring any net positives and which has no way of ever being merged back into the project, given that it's based on an outdated version and model of Qt.