fuck you, pay me

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_posts/2019-02-23-open-source-sucks.md

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+title: "Abusive user relationships in open source"
+tags:
+- opensource
+- opinion
+---
+
+I don't think anybody can understate the value free and open source software
+has brought to the world at large, value which has largely been freely given
+with little expectation in return. The ubiquity of free and open source
+software seems to have fostered a sense of entitlement in the minds of some
+users. This presumption that free and open source software should do exactly
+what they expect it to do, and if not, that's a problem that _you_ the
+maintainer should address. I find this viewpoint to be not only incorrect, but
+abusive.
+
+Today I stumbled into a ticket, wherein a user exclaimed, paraphrasing:
+
+> _I love open source and I really like this tool, but the fact that this ticket
+> is still open and not addressed makes it very hard for businesses to take
+> open source software seriously._
+>
+> _This ticket isn't asking for anything crazy, a number of proprietary tools
+> already support this kind of functionality._
+
+I must commend my colleague who handled this ticket very well and avoided what
+was my first gut reaction of "go fuck yourself." The tone of the comment is one
+I frequently see from people who believe that they are entitled to something
+from the free and open source community. What makes this one particularly
+obnoxious to me is the passive aggressive tone, combined with the expectation
+that others should do some work for free.
+
+For me, much of my free and open source work falls into one of two buckets:
+
+1. Passion-driven, I'm doing this for me. It's not that I don't care about
+   people who might use it, but I don't care _that much_ about what those
+   people might want.
+1. Work-driven, I'm contributing to this project because it directly relates to
+   my professional work. This is usually the case when I'm making one-off pull
+   requests to some upstream project.
+
+At no point will I ever do what some random person on the internet asks me to,
+unless it fits into one of those two buckets. More generally speaking, if you
+want something done in a free and open source project you should either
+do it yourself, or pay somebody to implement what you want. Trying to shame
+others into doing your bidding is _never_ appropriate.
+
+We all have bills to pay,
+
+<img src="/images/fuckyoupayme.jpg" alt="fuck you, pay me"/>