Re:While open source is free as in beer, it’s also free as i...
by Thrillington on Saturday September 17, 2016 @11:31AM
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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
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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
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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
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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.
> 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.