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by pfranz
3487 days ago
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This is what makes open source (and a lot of volunteering) really difficult. If you look at a sibling post, one reason given was, "Just tried to use hyperbole to bust the Javascript echo chamber." I think that's true for many of the egregious examples, but it still hurts and isn't fair the people working on the project. The lines get blurry, XP has a business case for dropping support, Google (and GNU) are decently funded I imagine. I'm not sure how much his work at Facebook and his contribution to open source overlap, but it's not fair to be outraged or make demands if you're not paying anything--especially if this is all work done own his own, for fun. Hell, I work in an industry where we pay for expensive software but don't have a venue to complain about bugs or feature changes because they don't make themselves accessible. We could pay 10x more money and get a support contract where we can yell at them, I've worked at places that do, and they likely won't address your issues. Pay 100x more and they'll write a custom version for you. With OSS, many times, we get this for free. |
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