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Re: Lazy Maintainers?
by Eric Laffoon on Wednesday 13/Oct/2004, @13:42
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I don't think you should tell him to relax. I think you should do something. ;-)
What have you done to help a project lately? He's right. A primary reason to release open source is the currency of community respect, just as monetary remuneration is for commercial projects. Calling commercial developers lazy is no big deal, as long as you keep buying their software. Calling free software developers lazy is analogous to collecting a refund. It is a debit of respect.
All of this is no big deal except that with millions of users and hundreds of contributors it is utterly absurd for someone in the over 99% of people who don't contribute to call the less than 1% of people who are doing anything lazy. It's doubtful anyone in the less than 1% group would say that and it is worth making the point of personal cost to put such things in perspective.
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Re: Lazy Maintainers?
by John Relaxed Freak on Wednesday 13/Oct/2004, @15:36
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I agree with all that. Just not so sure he actually called the developers lazy, seems just an harmless joke to me (of course I don't know for sure).
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