Open-Source is Just That.
Open-Source is Just That.
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100% agree with this dude. On the web, there are so many people who think them being a user of opensource is somehow a gift to the maintainer/developer. It is a damn privilege to be able to use something someone is providing for free and open sourced. Be respectful to the devs and maintainers, unless they aren't nice to you, or stay silent. Please.
There was another post a while back, I think it was titled "maintainers don't owe you a goddamn thing" and that statement is also true.
I wish github did more for devs and allowed to bad and report people from projects entirely. I also find it disgusting how people dogpile on github e.g when a dev uses the "wrong" license, disagrees to merge a PR, commits the crime of not writing secure code, when users disagree with something a dev said on another channel and so much more. And they think it's justified.
Harassing devs became so normalised that it got a state actor (probably) into an a critical open source project, which nearly led to the infection of millions of computers. Look up Jia Tan, SSH and I think xz (or whatever the name was).