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Re:"Open Source is awful in many ways, and people should be ... by Dylan16807 on Monday October 06, 2014 @03:43PM (#8417804)
Well, when the quality problems are severe enough to get someone fired from a workplace...
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Re:"Open Source is awful in many ways, and people should be ... by chris_wot on Tuesday October 07, 2014 @06:07AM (#8420345)
Then they get fired, normally after being counselled. They don't get told they are so worthless they should have been aborted.
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Re:"Open Source is awful in many ways, and people should be ... by EdwardDiego on Tuesday October 07, 2014 @12:52AM (#8419713)
I wasn't aware FOSS projects were compelled to accept code contributions...
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Re:"Open Source is awful in many ways, and people should be ... by Dylan16807 on Tuesday October 07, 2014 @10:27AM (#8421309)
The point is that this situation wouldn't exist in a workplace. So talking about what conduct is tolerated there... doesn't really apply.
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Re:"Open Source is awful in many ways, and people should be ... by EdwardDiego on Tuesday October 07, 2014 @08:58PM (#8424818)
Okay, fine, remove workplace if you want to quibble about semantics and broaden it to "Most human interactions". Most human interactions consider a modicum of respect for the other party to be a basic requirement.
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