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Re:The Lack of Compensation in Open Source Software Is Unsus... by bjornsing on Friday November 17, 2023 @08:56AM (#38303584)
> a maintainer cannot expect users to not complain

Eh… Isn’t that fairly close to the definition of entitlement (i.e. you complain when you have no reason to)?

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Re:The Lack of Compensation in Open Source Software Is Unsus... by andsoitis on Friday November 17, 2023 @09:02AM (#38303651)
As a maintainer you cannot control how people behave. There’s no point in lamenting that people act entitled.

Instead, it is more productive to develop strategies to ignore the noise from entitled voices. You do not need to respond to them. You do not need to convince them. You do not have to keep them happy.

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Re:The Lack of Compensation in Open Source Software Is Unsus... by dom96 on Friday November 17, 2023 @10:12AM (#38304629)
> There’s no point in lamenting that people act entitled.

There is: it discourages people from acting entitled.

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Re:The Lack of Compensation in Open Source Software Is Unsus... by yjftsjthsd-h on Friday November 17, 2023 @12:21PM (#38306674)
Does it? How much of an impact do you think it has?
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Re:The Lack of Compensation in Open Source Software Is Unsus... by antisthenes on Friday November 17, 2023 @01:11PM (#38307513)
More impact than doing nothing at all.
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Re:The Lack of Compensation in Open Source Software Is Unsus... by billythemaniam on Friday November 17, 2023 @01:20PM (#38307639)
I suspect ignoring them is more effective than essentially complaining back.
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