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Re:The Realities of Being a FOSS Maintainer by bad_user on Saturday September 16, 2017 @12:40AM (#15262911)
Except that users of open source are not paying money and most of them aren't contributing or donating anything either.

So the least such users can do is to be nice otherwise gtfo.

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Re:The Realities of Being a FOSS Maintainer by js2 on Saturday September 16, 2017 @01:02AM (#15262980)
You'd think that, but OTOH, they haven't invested anything so they have no incentive to be nice. You and I may wish people were nice as a matter of course, but sadly, not so much. :-(

(To be clear, I think the really awful users are a just a very vocal minority.)

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Re:The Realities of Being a FOSS Maintainer by AndyNemmity on Saturday September 16, 2017 @05:08AM (#15263724)
Investing doesn't give an incentive to be nice either.
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