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Tor Lillqvist

@isotopp Not just corporations. Lots of fervent individual supporters of Open Source think that by using the software, they are entitled to speedy support and fixes for their pet bugs.

2 October at 10:24 | Open on urbanists.social
Thaha Jemni

@tml @isotopp This reminds me I need to be more proactive in my bug reporting and fixing as an individual user.

I just use, rarely report bugs or improvements. And if I do, I want it fixed quick by the maintainer.

I do have programming experience and knowledge. So I should help more, maybe fix it myself and thus be more 'proactive'.

2 October at 10:35 | Open on mastodon.social
Thaha Jemni

@tml @isotopp Open source is give and take.

I just take, rarely give.

I should start doing that more.

2 October at 10:35 | Open on mastodon.social
Heliograph

@isotopp oh lordy ain't that the truth 😬

2 October at 11:27 | Open on mastodon.au
gi124

@isotopp this needs to be a meme template

2 October at 11:38 | Open on mastodon.social
dch :flantifa: :flan_hacker:

@isotopp Entitled User Syndrome “I have many paying customers who are very angry that you have not fixed this yet during your holiday”

2 October at 11:59 | Open on bsd.network
Freevolt

@isotopp It's a bit of the same from security academia, sadly. Finds a bunch of issues, gets popular, doesn't care about the aftermath.

2 October at 12:13 | Open on mastodon.social
Pit

@isotopp I think that as a community we should be more open to licenses that are a lot more restrictive when it comes to use by corporations. Software freedom isn't freedom if we are exploited by corps. Recently I discovered the anticapitalist license which I'm tempted to start using on certain projects: anticapitalist.software/

2 October at 13:04 | Open on hachyderm.io
Kris

@piturnah Usually AGPL 3 is good enough to make any corp not use the code.

"A"GPL so they can't host for third parties.
"GPL3" with the software patent clause, so that they lose the right to run any GPL3 if they sue over software patents.

2 October at 13:06 | Open on infosec.exchange
Pit

@isotopp I understand this for things like packages, but what about tooling/applications/whatever? As I understand corporations can still rely on this kind of software published under GPL because they aren't modifying and/or redistributing it / distributing software that relies on it directly in the stack
Please let me know if I'm missing something here or being naive.

2 October at 13:15 | Open on hachyderm.io
Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel

@isotopp Maybe don't start the umpteenth Typescript ORM library just because the biggest one "didn't sit right with you".

2 October at 13:16 | Open on rls.social
ssh://thepinkhacker.com

@isotopp Ok so as someone with multiple open-source projects, I have some thoughts on this.
While people shouldn't be entitled to their issue tickets, having them at all is very valuable. So few people actually report bugs for my projects. I end up being the one to discover more than 90% of them. But when someone does report a bug, I often had no clue it existed and am able to fix it.
Just because I get a issue ticket doesn't mean it's a walk in the park to fix. But, overall they do help.

2 October at 14:35 | Open on social.linux.pizza
JP Stringham

@ThePinkHacker @isotopp I agree, the free layer of QA with issue submission is totally accceptable for me. Doesn’t mean I can get to it quickly but I am happy to have someone else formalize bug reports!

2 October at 15:49 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place
webdesignerbd
nb

@isotopp

If there's any one part of OSS documentation that needs to be religiously updated, it's the build instructions. Otherwise would-be contributors will try to do their part, discover they can't even compile, and just go elsewhere

2 October at 15:50 | Open on mastodon.social
Oven🧪

@nbaileydev @isotopp Totally agree, undervalued feature of OSS repos is easy onboarding and clear documentation.

2 October at 21:13 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place
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