On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 03:57:21PM +0200, Peter van Dijk wrote: > On Wed, 2020-09-16 at 12:30 +0000, Derek Wilson wrote: > > I probably yelled too much in that thread for it to be effective (sorry) > > > Your comments in the thread are loud, rude, and almost consistently > > incorrect. You've shown some fine examples of the blatant disregard some > > users > > have for all this wonderful software they get for free, and the developers > > that put in effort to write that software. This demonstrates a messed up > > sense > > of entitlement and a total disrespect for developers that is all too common > > today.
code is law, felt especially strongly by those who can't add features to open-source software, or who can't get them upstreamed due to overwork or vision differences, or who can't add features to closed-source software because they lack source code. there may not be an alternative platform that works better. i say this for background, because: 1. i tried for ten years to get a few features added to Psi (a jabber client), and i could not find anyone who would take them, nor anyone who could review and improve them, even for money. eventually i dropped Psi, and later, dropped jabber itself. this was not in the Psi project's best interests. my unheeded cries for help were actually attempts to help the project. i wasn't asking for something-for-nothing, either. 2. same for KDE kmail/kontact, though last year (2019) was a breakthrough, it took a long time and a torch bearing mob. i'd've been much happier with a gofundme campaign. 3. ISC was originally chartered to focus external resources (money and services) on community needs (software, protocols, and services). even so there was one time when leo bicknell asked why we were keeping 10-year-old bug reports in our RT instance and nobody knew, so he deleted everything older than last january 1. we never noticed. open source is very powerful, but when it's not right, there's usually zero recourse. -- Paul Vixie _______________________________________________ dns-operations mailing list [email protected] https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations
