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Re:Funding Open Source: How Webpack Reached $400k+/year by wellpast on Sunday November 05, 2017 @03:05PM (#15631286)
I don't think it's acceptable in any situation to express your frustration this way in a public forum, especially for OSS. Thoughtful critical pieces are fine and necessary, but I don't think blatant vitriolic "cathartic" outlets should be encouraged at all -- in this case, it is being encouraged by the maintainer, but I don't think that helps anything.

I get the frustration...I've said "Fuck XYZ" a thousand times for a thousand different software XYZs but to take that to a public forum is suitable behavior for a toddler, and does harm.

How many nights & weekends were spent building Webpack? How many nights & weekends coming up with "fuck webpack"? Show some respect and at least spend a few hours in thoughtful critique. Civility must still have a place, even online.

Tangentially, Rich Hickey recently responded (I think appropriately) to a similar outlet re Clojure [1].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/73yznc/on_whose_au...

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Re:Funding Open Source: How Webpack Reached $400k+/year by avenoir on Sunday November 05, 2017 @03:49PM (#15631474)
I agree that screaming something like this on Twitter when you're in temporary rage is nothing but childish. But it's also hard to ignore that someone who represents webpack was able to resolve the situation calmly and civilly only to call the person a hater and a troll later on. This, in my eyes, is a breath away from screaming obscenities on Twitter.
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