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Re:Actix project postmortem by shirshak55 on Friday January 17, 2020 @08:29AM (#22074412)
"The actix author almost certainly (unless they deploy their own kernel) has profited immensely from other peoples work."

Prove it.

"But by engaging in open source you engage in a social contract" https://gist.github.com/richhickey/1563cddea1002958f96e7ba95...

Re:Actix project postmortem by j-pb on Friday January 17, 2020 @08:49AM (#22074561)
>> Prove it.

Actix was written in rust. Rust is OS. qed.

Quote from Rich's gist.

>> I'm sure you know better about the one true way to write software. But kindly don't burn the community down on your way out, with self-serving proclamations.

The actix author could just have walked away, no harm done, push one button "Archive", go outside and enjoy the sun.

Instead they choose to throw a tantrum, write a pamphlet and nuke everything.

Entitlement goes both ways.