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by chrisseaton 1389 days ago
Can I ask you to send me $100 and then criticise you when you don’t? Or is that an unreasonable criticism since why on earth should you send me any money?
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imtringued 1388 days ago
It is the opposite, the submitter sends a patch aka $100 and then the maintainer rejects the money/patch.
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chris_wot 1389 days ago
That’s not unreasonable, if I used your work or wanted a change.
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chrisseaton 1388 days ago
But it's the other way around - why would you pay someone who was also using your work for free?
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chris_wot 1388 days ago
What’s your point? If you have a popular project and you won’t accept a valid patch, a bit of polite criticism isn’t going to hurt you.

Happened with the OpenOffice.org project. Caused the fork.

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