three suited men in my coffeeshop. one of them just said, "my personal idea of progress is moving things forward," which is actually just the definition. everyone's nodding. guys like this are in charge of every industry and it's clearly why trains explode
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[–] -1 points 7 months ago (9 children)
  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (8 children)

    Many of them often are, through donations / Patreon / etc.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    so no

    there’s your answer and I suspect you understand this as we’ve struggled to arrive here

    if you want people to do non passion projects you need to pay them for those parts specifically

    as much as I love patreon as a concept (not the company it is shit) the work agreement I’ve always seen is rather open

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    Even setting aside Patreon or whatever else, I think you’re still wrong about public passion project developers getting to do whatever they want and not have people criticize them for it. If you invite people into your space and then pull the rug out from under them, people are going to treat you like an asshole because you are one for doing that.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    people get all kinds of ideas on what they are owed

    but expecting educated, talented people to do boring/difficult/unfun stuff for free is lol

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  • [–] -1 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    There’s no expectation here. You’re free to walk away from a project any time. You’re free to take your ball and go home. The question is about whether you’re immune to criticism.

    I say that when you put a project out into public and people start using it, you invite criticism (but also praise, of course). The issue is with people who think they’re only entitled to praise and not criticism. They want to have their cake and eat it too.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (3 children)

    and yet here we are lol

    this is really simple

    if you want specifically a thing, pay for specifically that thing

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    But you’re free to criticize, free to fork, and free to ignore in the open source world. Can’t take the criticism? Too bad! Grow a spine!

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