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0 pointslatexr5d ago0 comments

This is getting stupid. Now one can’t even make a reasonable polite question with praise without being asked if they pay.

Bun raised millions of dollars and was acquired by a commercial entity which bragged in the same blog post of reaching $1B. They’re not a guy with an eyepatch and a tin can out on the street.

Open-source developers should be compensated, but they don’t have to be. You can’t reasonably offer your work for free then complain someone isn’t paying you. If you want to be paid, charge for it.

Signed: A long time open-source developer who has dedicated years of full-time work to useful projects without compensation or raising VC money or being acquired.

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jaapz5d ago

Come on, whenever a project is discussed on hackernews, there is always one comment of "why are you working on X, when you should be fixing bug Y?!".

We are all software engineers on here (or at least many of us are), we all know how project management and prioritisation works right? We can't work on everything all at once.

latexrOP5d ago

> Come on, whenever a project is discussed on hackernews, there is always one comment of "why are you working on X, when you should be fixing bug Y?!".

That is not what the question is about, which you’ll see if you engage with it properly in good faith. There is a single question in the comment (indicated, as one does in English, by a question mark):

> How do you feel about all the constant concerns being raised about the quality of the project lately?

Everything else is context and opinion to explain the question.

Chris20485d ago

given the alleged context, X being something "reported in 2023, still affecting us 3 years later", is this not a reasonable PM / priority decision to question?

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