OSS has gone off the rails recently. There’s a project under the Apache Software Foundation—I forget which—that is essentially a byproduct of the operations of a Chinese beverage company. That’s more like what I remember.
We’re talking about code that users can modify themselves to solve their own problems. That’s it. I don’t need to hear about the struggle.
> We're talking about code that users can modify themselves to solve their own problems. That's it. I don't need to hear about the struggle.
That's exactly the kind of attitude that this discusses.
You create something that solves your problems, you put it up on GitHub, free, and open... Suddenly it turns out others have the same problems you did, your software solves them.
It starts ok. People are nice. But as it gains traction, a certain kind of toxic person becomes more and more common. The "YOU FIX IT NOW! I DONT KNOW" Kind of person.
You wake in the morning, look at your email, and it's a stream of being screamed at. That takes a toll.
All because you had an idea one time to build something that solved your problem you thought "hey I might just open source this".
> That's it. I don't need to hear about the struggle.
Let me tell you a solution for the "FIX IT NOW" types:
> This is an Open Source project that gets developed at the author's discretion. We provide paid work services for urgent fixes, cost is $500 per day with a minimum of 4 days.
Put that in the README, under a header that can be linked to in bug reports from entitled people. Worst thing that could happen is that the maintainer ends up earning a couple grand.
I like it, only one problem.. the fix it now types also are the same ones that didn't read anything.