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applfanboysbgontoday at 3:49 PM1 replyview on HN

Friendly reminder that volunteer maintainers owe you literally not a single goddamn thing. I absolutely want no AI slop in my commercial products that I pay money for, but your feedback is not important to people you are not paying to develop software for you. They gave away not only their software but the source code for free; if you have a problem with it, fork it. Which is something you can do with their generous allowance, and that is an allowance any maintainer can instead choose to not bother themselves with if publishing their code for free leads themselves to dealing with entitled internet commenters harassing them with complaints.


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teddyhtoday at 4:23 PM

> Friendly reminder that volunteer maintainers owe you literally not a single goddamn thing.

Technically true. However, I also do not owe them my silence.

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