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by akoboldfrying 11 days ago
Nobody whose software you use for free owes you anything. It is so important not to lose sight of this.

If you feel like they do owe you something, that's only because years of habit -- years of using other people's software for free, and having the good fortune of finding it generally to improve in quality over time -- has caused your baseline to drift from the true state of affairs, which is that nobody whose software you use for free owes you anything.

2 comments

Indeed you can step down, but as one of the comments says:

> Just because you're giving free soup to the homeless doesn't mean you can piss in it

Okay but if shipping software that has a bug counts as pissing in soup then a lot of people have been doing this for a long time.
Rather, using a tool notorious for making code with a higher error rate than humans is what people are upset about. It's not just having bugs in and of itself.
Honestly if this is the metric, I'm not sure anyone has ever made piss-free soup
You best start believing in piss-soup stories. You're in one!
People here hate hearing this. You're entirely correct though.