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Nothing says "free as in speech" like being told there is no "opportunity for you to whine about it."

>>torste+(OP)
Oh, people absolutely free to whine about it, I suppose, but I'm also free to tell them they're being entitled jerks. I just wish overall that people wouldn't act like entitled jerks, and then the whole problem would go away. A wish that's unlikely to be fulfilled, but hey, I can dream.

Regardless, the whole "free as in speech" (vs. "free as in beer") thing isn't saying that the code is like speech. It was just a way for the FSF to distinguish between the two confusing (in this context, at least) English meanings of the word "free".

>>kelnos+w
Do you work on Gnome, by chance?

>>torste+l1
Funny you mention that. No, I don't, but I'd often been unhappy with how GNOME was developed, and worked in general. Instead of whining, I stopped using GNOME, and started contributing to a different desktop environment. Our stuff has its faults, too, and none of us have enough of the time we'd like to spend working on it, but we do the best we can with the time that we have and the effort we're willing to put into it.

Not saying everyone has the skills or time or even desire to contribute regularly to an open source project. And that's fine! But that doesn't mean whining about (what you see as) a project's deficiencies is ever cool.

(Note that I'm fine with people writing up constructive criticism. But just stuff like "this project doesn't provide release builds unless I pay and that's not fair" is just entitled nonsense.)