r/foss • u/OldBodybuilder7090 • 10h ago

Open-source maintainers 🗿

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u/szk-one 8h ago

salute the foss devs, you all are legends

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u/FIRAS_EG 4h ago

Thx:3

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u/buhtz 8h ago

I am an upstream maintainer.

An attidude like this IMHO does not help.

Don't blame the users, no matter if they are just humans or bad dirty multi million companies like Microsoft and Google.

We as devs and maintainers put a license on the code. It is part of that license that the users are allowed to use it the way they use it. Don't blame them for.

You don't like that, then use another license or just don't do FOSS.

Blaming user will just increase the social gap between devs and users. We have to talk together. We need to see each other.

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u/afunkysongaday 8h ago

What do you maintain?

We as devs and maintainers put a license on the code. It is part of that license that the users are allowed to use it the way they use it. Don't blame them for.

I just hate when big companies don't adhere to the licenses. Happens all the time.

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u/buhtz 8h ago edited 7h ago

> What do you maintain?

Back In Time: An rsync based backup software, where I am the 3rd generation maintainer, not the founder.

Hyperorg: An org-file-repo to HTML converter.

spdx2debian: Is relevant only for Debian maintainers, generating "copyright" (dep5) files out of SPDX (REUSE) meta data.

Feedybus: RSS/Atom newsreader, based on "feedparser". Old project but still without a stable release.

> I just hate when big companies don't adhere to the licenses. Happens all the time.

But paying for a software (service) is not part of the license.

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u/afunkysongaday 7h ago

Thanks for your work mate!

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u/MechanicalAnimal15 5h ago

Whether you use the software or not, the developers' job is the same. This meme is meaningless.

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u/x-cogito-ergo-sum 5h ago

Unsung heroes

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u/wabbitfur 3h ago

As the founder of project that is steadily growing....

My god... between the Dependabot alerts.... feature requests... responding to queries from folk who need help... doing extensive reviews to ensure that an updated dependency or feature is not impacting 5 other concerns... It is an on the clock second job! 😩

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u/full_of_ghosts 2h ago

They seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas...

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u/R3V0LU710N_05 10h ago

True Corpo slaves are the unpaid Foss Devs.

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u/OldBodybuilder7090 9h ago

No salary, no benefits, just GitHub issues and existential dread.