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Re:The reason people burn out on open source by maxsilver on Sunday December 07, 2014 @08:47AM (#8712127)
It's a silly and petty jab at the maintainer of a small open source project. Fighting with people on these "complaints masked as a fake issue" is one reason people sometimes burn out on maintaining open source projects.

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For a similar scenario: Imagine if some tiny indie band put up a song or two on their own website for free.

Now imagine if the top response said "You songs aren't as good as Taylor Swift's songs. You should disclose that your band isn't Taylor Swift, so I don't waste my time listening to this, and you should take these songs down and replace them with pirated copies of Taylor Swift songs, because I like them better"

That's effectively what's happening on this issue, in open-source-code form.

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Re:The reason people burn out on open source by nraynaud on Sunday December 07, 2014 @09:03AM (#8712173)
He didn't pick on the underdog, don't give this false impression. The bug report was certainly not nice, but it was not answered by an unknown anonymous grunt of the open source movement, we're talking 15k followers on twitter.
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