| ▲ | 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. | ||