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  • tutus@sh.itjust.workstoTechnology@lemmy.worldI'm giving up — on open source - Blog
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    2 months ago

    I wasn’t implying criticism isn’t allowed.

    But opinions on what somebody should do with their time and project are just that.

    Feedback must be given in a respectful way or it’s not effective. That often doesn’t happen with open-source projects and until we change the culture around open-source, this is going to just keep happening.

    Opinions ate like assholes. Everybody has one. Doesn’t mean its relevant or important. The number of intelligent people who confuse opinion with fact never fails to astound me.


  • I agree.

    Playing Devils Advocate it sounds like the options, for them, would be to stop providing a non-paying version entirely.

    I understand where they are coming from but providing an open source version that won’t get timely security updates feels like it would be more trouble than it’s worth to use.

    If they only want to work on a version that pays for their time I’d suggest they make the whole thing closed source.


  • The self-entitlement in open-source has to stop. This is only one example of a maintainer quitting. There are many more.

    And the shaming of projects who want to make money to sustain their projects also has to stop. Nothing is free. Somebody is paying for it in time, resources or money.

    If you don’t like what a project is doing, or how they’re monetizing, don’t use it. Move on.






  • Been using this for about 3 months or so. The one piece missing is good swipe word recognition - its really poor compared to Gboard even after this amount of time. I spend more time correcting words than I saved nor typing them. Used swipe with Gboard for many years previously so I know hope swipe works.

    Any suggestions on how to improve it?