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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.

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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 @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.
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