alt Hacker NewsIt's dismissive because most of the requests open source developers get need to be dismissed.
"Where can I send some cash for your hard work" is much rarer than "Here's my very complex edge use case that I need to support ASAP, I think it's quite shameful you don't support this already must not take you more than 5 minutes, come on people do it already my clients are waiting".
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boltzmann-brain • today at 7:31 PM
see, that's the problem, you immediately jump to a combative stance + assume the current maintainer is always right, which is exactly how the situations i presented happen in the first place
That brings to mind one of my favorite sayings:
"It may be open source, but that doesn't mean that it is afraid of money."