RE: circumstances.run/@davidgerardI'd like to tell you a story about a contributor who came to us at Mozilla, in my first 2-3 years working there. I never met them, don't know their name, and I still think about them a few times a year. They came to us with questions, as they were struggling to build Firefox on their computer, and they were getting errors that nobody had ever seen. And I don't mean "errors that were unfamiliar to our engineers", I mean "we can't figure out how or why our build system would emit that string."

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[–] [S] 1 point 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Getting back to this thread - I've edited some posts upstream to make my point a little more clear - but two things. One, the idea that contributing to free and open software should require so much as contact with, much less a subscription service to, a wildly unprofitable, unethical and proprietary software service is a noxious, irresponsible and nonsensical position. But two: god, kid wherever you are I hope you're doing amazingly well. I hope you made it. You deserved at least that.

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