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Re:Why I prefer making useless stuff by swiftcoder on Sunday May 23, 2021 @05:48PM (#27258907)
That's precisely the point. They aren't free to make a pull request. A pull request puts a time demand on the project owner to review and merge the patch.

What they are free to do is fork the project, and do whatever the hell they want to in the fork.

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Re:Why I prefer making useless stuff by ratww on Sunday May 23, 2021 @06:39PM (#27259291)
Yep. It's a cathedral rather than a bazaar [1]. A very small cathedral, but still one.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar

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