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1. kelnos+(OP)[view] [source] 2024-01-22 23:26:05
Yep, exactly. The level of entitlement some commenters here seem to have is appalling. The project maintainers don't owe anyone free labor.

If their paying customers want something, then that's perhaps a different story, and is governed by whatever agreement (tacit or otherwise) is in place for the purchase.

But if you aren't paying, you aren't owed anything. Not a single thing.

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2. jacque+r1[view] [source] 2024-01-22 23:37:58
>>kelnos+(OP)
It's insane. Somehow access to the code has transformed into '24x7 unpaid unlimited support, direct influence on the roadmap, the right to bitch and moan about everything that doesn't quite work the way the recipient needs and can I have a pony'.

I wished those people could be transferred back to the pre-FOSS days when your disassembler was one of the more critical tools in the toolbox if you wished to fix vendor bugs. I distinctly recall reverse engineering the ROM of a laser printer board to repair a bug that the manufacturer just couldn't be bothered to deal with (Tall-Tree systems Jlaser, I'll never forget). That would have been a lot easier if it had come with source code. These days for me it's either open source or you can keep it.

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3. kelnos+N5[view] [source] [discussion] 2024-01-23 00:04:52
>>jacque+r1
Yep, it's a really disturbing trend in people's attitudes.

I wonder if this shift can be attributed to influencer / social media culture. That is, these things exist to get "likes" and "engagement" and build "communities" and "brands" and whatnot. So your average person, someone who even knows a bit about open source, might think that any maintainer worth anything would want those things as well, and see it as not just worth it, but required to provide all the extra free labor required to get those likes and promote their brand.

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