I read the post and I am thankful that these people exist, most of my life is made possible through the selfless work of wonderful open source developers like this person.
Sometimes I wish I was so passionate, whereas my philosophy in life towards strangers is a much simpler “fuck you, or pay me”. It allows me to sleep fairly well at night.
I have a few toy projects on GitHub, a couple of which gained a tiny bit of popularity, and I simply ignored every new feature request that I didn’t need, and especially those large PRs “here, I refactored your code to make it functional and it’s so much better now”. I simply said, with no regret: “I won’t merge this, feel free to fork the project, if it’s better I might even switch myself to your project!”. Some got mad, but I truly and genuinely couldn’t care less.
Sometimes I wish I was so passionate, whereas my philosophy in life towards strangers is a much simpler “fuck you, or pay me”. It allows me to sleep fairly well at night.
I have a few toy projects on GitHub, a couple of which gained a tiny bit of popularity, and I simply ignored every new feature request that I didn’t need, and especially those large PRs “here, I refactored your code to make it functional and it’s so much better now”. I simply said, with no regret: “I won’t merge this, feel free to fork the project, if it’s better I might even switch myself to your project!”. Some got mad, but I truly and genuinely couldn’t care less.