This thinking keeps open source behind competitors. Additionally this person is not just wasting his own time, but through both just this talk and the contents of it where he asks others for help it is causing other people to get involved with this waste of time.

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noir_lord 21 hours ago | parent [-]

You seem to be missing the part where this is all people voluntarily doing things that they deem are important to themselves or just plain fun to do.

No one commands open source developers to do the things they do, they do them because they have an itch to scratch and are kind enough to release that work for other people with the same itch.

Your view is very much "What I think they should do is more important than what they think they should do" and that's not how that works.

At best that comes off as a little entitled.

	▲	charcircuit 21 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There are more itches for these people to scratch than this problem. Volunteer's time is both valuable and limited and it is a shame when it is wasted when those resources could have been used on something that actually makes the product better. >"What I think they should do is more important than what they think they should do" and that's not how that works. Again within his talk he is trying to get people to work on what he thinks is important instead of what they would otherwise be doing. Is he entitled for that? I don't think so. Trying to align people with your vision to try and accomplish things is just a part of life and I do not see it as entitlement. Society is one big optimization problem and arguments like this is a part of how the optimization process works.