Re:I don't want your PRs anymore
by _verandaguy on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @05:23PM
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This is an unethical take, and long-term and at scale, an unsustainable/impractical one. This kind of mindset results in tool fragmentation, erosion of trust, and ultimately worse quality in software.
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So you're saying people forking open source software is "unethical"? What is open source then? Just a polite offer that it is rude to accept?
As a sidenote: what's with the usage of "take" to designate an opinion instead of the word "opinion" or "view"?
Re:I don't want your PRs anymore
by _verandaguy on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @09:29AM
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Open-source is heavily community-oriented, and yes, I think that subverting the contributions of the community like this (and honestly, just kind of being a dick about it) is unethical, yeah. It erodes the fabric of open source, and will be detrimental not just to OSS, but to the field of software in the medium and long term for the reasons I stated earlier.
To your side note: "take" is a very common synonym for "thought"/"opinion"/"view" in the version (dialect? I guess?) of English I grew up with. If you're unfamiliar with it, that might be a regional or generational effect. I don't know. I'm not a linguist.