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by blenderob 151 days ago
+1000.

A vast majority of posts and comments here shows a classic case of consumerism. I want this. I want that. This sucks. That sucks. Well, what are you bringing to the community?

There is this weird kind of amnesia with open source tools where people forget that these open source projects are a labor of love by small communities. They are developing the projects for themselves, their community. Are you part of that community or are you outside it? If you're outside the community, it shouldn't surprise you when the tool doesn't perfectly work for you. I sometimes feel that many of these people would be better off buying commercial tools and pay for support.