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bahmbooyesterday at 7:43 PM1 replyview on HN

The sense of entitlement is strong in these comments. If you haven’t built or maintained OSS I’m wondering why your opinion matters [edit: that's harshly worded I could have been more nuanced, hopefully the point is taken and it is a question]. There’s also the take that “this is fine” vs considering that the state of OSS things could be a LOT better with higher quality and more choices if we fed the beast properly.


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mjr00yesterday at 7:48 PM

I don't see any entitlement at all, in fact it's the opposite.

The article: "I expect open source maintainers to maintain their codebases and add new features. I have unilaterally decided that $1/package is a suitable amount, universally applicable to all packages and maintainers." <--- this is entitlement

The comments here: "Open source maintainers don't owe you shit."

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