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by bigdubs 3981 days ago
The OSS "weaknesses" of .net are a chicken and an egg problem; the more people who come from a community software background that use a framework, the more community software there will be for that framework.

Having what reads as a very angry and negative blogpost about the state of .net oss isn't really helping.

Contributing software is though, and that really should have been the focus of the post, not how weak and terrible .net oss is.

Be the change you seek.
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taco_emoji 3981 days ago
I hate this attitude that negativity is unproductive. Pointing out a problem, articulating its impacts, and hypothesizing about its causes are essential steps to effective problem solving.

And I further abhor the notion that anger is not useful. Anger gets attention, and passion elicits empathy and thoughtfulness. Anger is motivating. Anger is a rejection of despair, which is the real enemy of change.

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bigdubs 3980 days ago
Do you respond well when someone yells at you? Honest question.

In a lot of cultures anger is seen as weakness, it's the person giving into negativity. It's also seen as hostile. I don't attribute "passion" to someone who is angry. You can be angry without being passionate, and vice versa. Some people are just bitter.

I'm honestly really surprised by this response.

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taco_emoji 3980 days ago
> Do you respond well when someone yells at you?

Of course not. But just because I don't like being yelled at in the moment doesn't mean I don't need it sometimes. If someone's angry at me it's because I've hurt them. I'm not going to scold them for yelling if I'm clearly in the wrong.

> In a lot of cultures blah blah

Thanks for explaining that like I've only recently arrived on Earth! I'm obviously not saying that anger is always good or useful. But if the cause is just and the pain is great, a well-articulated anger is going to be far more effective than milquetoast pleading.

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crescentfresh 3981 days ago
> Be the change you seek

He is: https://petabridge.com/about/

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bigdubs 3981 days ago
I wasn't saying he hadn't, in fact right above that line I acknowledged that he had. This is more for .net devs generally.
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reustle 3981 days ago
Did you read the article? It was almost entirely about how much he has contributed to the community.
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