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Re:While open source is free as in beer, it’s also free as i... by empthought on Saturday September 17, 2016 @05:41AM (#12519859)
> it's your duty ...

> it's your responsibility ...

If open source project owners owe people exactly nothing, then certainly open source project users have neither the duty nor the responsibility to contribute anything back, either.

Re:While open source is free as in beer, it’s also free as i... by Thrillington on Saturday September 17, 2016 @11:31AM (#12520891)
The duty and responsibilities given to users are real.

If you want help from a project maintainer to fix your submitted issue you have a duty to provide them enough information to solve it.

If your project has a dependency on a library it's your responsibility to your own code to make sure that proposed fixes work.

Re:While open source is free as in beer, it’s also free as i... by empthought on Saturday September 17, 2016 @08:35PM (#12523297)
I don't think you understand what a "duty" is. A duty is an ethical and moral requirement. Creating the conditions for someone else to help me most easily is not a duty; it's just common sense.
Re:While open source is free as in beer, it’s also free as i... by hiddentag on Saturday September 17, 2016 @11:42AM (#12520946)
The vast majority of open source projects are a volunteer effort. Either you contribute and better the software or support its community, or you don't. But if you choose the latter you can't complain about the software.
Re:While open source is free as in beer, it’s also free as i... by empthought on Saturday September 17, 2016 @08:27PM (#12523266)
I certainly can complain about the software. Obviously everyone else is free to ignore me.

Even though I use all of their software, I honestly don't care about the Linux, Java, Node, Emacs, or Python "communities" and it is frankly silly for open source developers to expect me to. I have real communities and responsibilities to devote unpaid labor to.