• Alex@lemmy.ml
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    5 hours ago

    Who are the community employing? Why do they need consulting before code changes are made?

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        I think what ze’s saying is https://mikemcquaid.com/open-source-maintainers-owe-you-nothing/ . the nature of open source—atl in accord with the hacker ethic—is that everything is just a passion project, there is no responsibility to not make bad decisions, and bad decisions result in decreased adoption and lost trust. after all, open source has always been about making a new alternative because existing solutions are bad.

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          2 hours ago

          So we aren’t supposed to talk about or react to said bad decisions? Come on.

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            So we aren’t supposed to talk about or react to said bad decisions? Come on.

            Do you want to post your real name and place of work online for everyone to see or do you understand why that kind of action is dangerous and wrong?

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            nah as an anarchist i am against silence. i’m just saying that in our capitalist society open source maintainers do not in fact have responsibility to the community, only to their market share, and this works slightly less dysfunctionally than proprietary because come what may the opposition may fork it. but that and the transparency and the ability to volunteer your labor for them are the only things that open source does guarantee.