There is a certain level of just being a decent human being though. If I am an unpaid pastor of a church, should I give crappy sermons?

In what way is Sir_Cmpwn's work "crappy"?

Guess what: if you ask your local Catholic priest to give sermons for your weird sect, he'll probably refuse too. And if lots of people keep insisting, it's not surprising he gets annoyed.

> I don't expect professionalism from someone who's basically giving me free stuff.

Ironically, that's exactly what Microsoft has been saying about Linux during those bad old days. Linux was successful because its developers didn't say "If you want to talk to a professional, buy something else."

I'm not saying an OSS developer should bend over and take abuse from users. But I believe there's a line between that and calling users "entitled brats" just because they use vendor-supplied drivers for their $500 cards.

No, he's calling his users "entitled brats" because they come into his channel and bitch and whine and demand he support them... for free.

After the post and all his comments here I have my doubts that "bitch and whine" isn't actually "people ask me questions, I realize that they use Nvidia so their questions are by definition whining and bitching."

You're certainly entitled to your opinion, but as someone who has actually maintained widely-used open source software, you'd likely be shocked at the level of entitlement I've encountered among OSS users.

>Ironically, that's exactly what Microsoft has been saying about Linux during those bad old days. Linux was successful because its developers didn't say "If you want to talk to a professional, buy something else."

Except, the reason why Microsoft was wrong was that Red Hat existed. If you're running CentOS or Arch Linux or something, you really are fucked as a business. The key distinction here is that SirCmpwn is not a Red Hat dev, so should not be expected to meet the responsibilities of one.

> I don't expect professionalism from someone who's basically giving me free stuff.

That's weird. Professionalism should be expected in all aspects of life. That's basic human respect.