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[-] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 82 points 4 months ago

I've seen this on a few repos and it never came across too harsh, the posts tagged with it were deserving. Wish I'd noted the repo names..

I'm fine with it tbh. FOSS devs need to squeeze every bit of enjoyment out of working on the project to keep motivated. If they (or mods) can drop a helpful reply and close an issue as 'skill issue' and get a little chuckle while they give their time for free answering poorly-written queries or bad bug reports then that's a reasonable trade to keep them from burning out.

[+] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works -13 points 4 months ago

Whats with the whole obessesion on "giving their time for free"? What does money have to do with this? It always comes across as a copout, implying you cant disagree with FOSS devs because they work for free. Just because they aren't earning money off off of it (aside from donations) doesnt mean they aren't earning some sort of reward for their work, whether its personal or social.

Besides that, its pretty common to include that type of work on a resume, which is sort of turning that work into future earnings if it helps you get a high paying job.

I appreciate what FOSS devs do, I just hear this victim narrative come up a lot in posts about them. I'm not even sure its FOSS devs posting that type of stuff on here, it might be other people defending them.

[-] Routhinator@startrek.website 24 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Anyone contributing to open source either does it:

on their companies dime, which means they work for a rare company building open source solutions
at the end of their day, on their weekend, or during their vacation

Most FOSS devs are in position two. By a large margin. They could be relaxing, or earning more money doing freelancing to make ends meet, but instead they are trying to build something they want to see happen. That requires focusing on the important tasks and that often means not having time to spend on poorly reported bugs that are actually users just not RTFM and opening issues. It wastes the devs time, and projects with too much of this have development stagnate and are frequently shuttered.

And devs that just do this to get a better job stop contributions once their new job takes over their life, and then the project suffers.

Users need to appreciate FOSS devs more because some of the most important projects we need in 2025 are developed only because they want to see them happen.

[-] ApertureUA@lemmy.today 8 points 4 months ago

You forgot unempl*yed teens

[-] 0x0@lemmy.zip 6 points 4 months ago

Is "unemployed" an offensive word now?

[-] phlegmy@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

What the frick are you doing? Do you want to be ba*ned???
I can't believe you casually dropped a n*w in there at the *nd too!

[-] ApertureUA@lemmy.today -2 points 4 months ago

Are you kidding ??? What the **** are you talking about man ? You are a biggest looser i ever seen in my life ! You was doing PIPI in your pampers when i was beating players much more stronger then you! You are not proffesional, because proffesionals knew how to lose and congratulate opponents, you are like a girl crying after i beat you! Be brave, be honest to yourself and stop this trush talkings!!! Everybody know that i am very good blitz player, i can win anyone in the world in single game! And "w"esley "s"o is nobody for me, just a player who are crying every single time when loosing, ( remember what you say about Firouzja ) !!! Stop playing with my name, i deserve to have a good name during whole my chess carrier, I am Officially inviting you to OTB blitz match with the Prize fund! Both of us will invest 5000$ and winner takes it all! I suggest all other people who's intrested in this situation, just take a look at my results in 2016 and 2017 Blitz World championships, and that should be enough... No need to listen for every crying babe, Tigran Petrosyan is always play Fair ! And if someone will continue Officially talk about me like that, we will meet in Court! God bless with true! True will never die ! Liers will kicked off...