Then we’re going to keep seeing an erosion of Free software until there’s a renaissance where people begin actively courting the general developer public to vote with their feet again.
FOSS won people over by saying we are entitled to useful software without having to mortgage ourselves to corporations. Well, it got what it wanted and now it calls users entitled. You’re damn right they are.
> FOSS won people over by saying we are entitled to useful software without having to mortgage ourselves to corporations. Well, it got what it wanted and now it calls users entitled. You’re damn right they are.
It's not the users that are acting too entitled. It's software producers that are doing it, by failing to perform their essential role of making sure the software they use is adequate for their purposes, and demanding that the FOSS components they're using do their their work for them.
Yes, because it’s been twenty years of FOSS with zero DevEx. People ran back to corporate walled gardens. Which is just a rephrasing of what I said above.
This isn’t “users” and corporations making a mess of the software world together. It’s all of us. As you guys are so fond of telling everyone else, if you don’t like it, change.
FOSS won people over by saying we are entitled to useful software without having to mortgage ourselves to corporations. Well, it got what it wanted and now it calls users entitled. You’re damn right they are.