The Realities of Being a FOSS Maintainer

Re:The Realities of Being a FOSS Maintainer by bartread on Sunday September 17, 2017 @04:18PM (#15271487)

And I still maintain: cock up, not conspiracy. Maybe they haven't handled the transition brilliantly. So what? Either use Caddy, or don't.

To your point that there's no indication that the project is open source: there are at least two links to the GitHub project on the homepage.

And as for the trademark removal from forks, that's sort of fair enough.

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Re:The Realities of Being a FOSS Maintainer by Sir_Cmpwn on Sunday September 17, 2017 @04:20PM (#15271499)

I didn't say it was a conspiracy. What makes you think I did? I said they were jerks and instead of apologizing they played the victim and mined for sympathy.

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Re:The Realities of Being a FOSS Maintainer by bartread on Sunday September 17, 2017 @11:21PM (#15273161)

Mate, it's a turn of phrase: a more colourful expression of Hanlon's razor. Are you being deliberately obtuse?

They're not "mining for sympathy": they've clarified their position and taken responsibility for handling the situation poorly.

Maybe stop interpreting everything you read in the worst possible light?

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