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this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2026
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This is volunteer work! He can stop doing it at literally any time! No one is forcing him to do this!
The more you people go on about how much he has to work, the more I'm thinking that this whole open source thing is a huge human rights violation.
He was literally asked to come out of retirement dude, cause the people with the actual fucking expertise with these tools are a handful. So in some ways, you are benefiting from the expertise of a handful of people and don't even realize it.
Like have you even looked at the rsync code?
And he can say no! I don't understand how you don't get this. He's not being paid, he can't be fired. He does not have to work like Sonic on a hamster wheel, he just doesn't.