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moritzwarhier 6 hours ago

But it is about humans in general!

Humans who want to use the software, and humans who author (or control dependencies of) the software.

Commenting as if this was a comment on yesterday's clawdbot-thread; I know it isn't, and it has previously been submitted here and is a good text.

It's about entitlement and using free OSS vs paying for a software product, I know.

But I think the gist of this gist can be generalized from "why you should not feel entitled to anything as a FOSS user" to "why software is about humans".

Especially because the commercial aspect is not as direct as in paid closed-source software for FOSS, but pressure (including commercial and/or social pressure) still exists.

Edit: "still" is not even a fitting word here, because the reliance of commercial software on FOSS is the societal change that causes this change in issue reporting, I'd say.

Crowd dynamics / psychological aspects cannot be ignored anywhere.