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  • All I am saying is that if the goal is to get people to use open source software (which it seems like this post is about and a lot of the discussions are too) then developers would need to make things which worked for people and listen to their feedback.

    If that is not the goal and folks in this thread are happy for people to continue to use closed source software because it has more funding and thus better UI/UX, or just it is more in their interests to make things that appeal to people regardless of funding then that that is okay.

    However, there seems to be a ideology where people evangalise open source software to folks yet ignore all of their flaws and tell them not to use closed source software that just looks and works better.

    So either we can have things that work for people, or we can have open source but not both all of the time because either open source devs cannot afford to make it so (which is understandable) or do not wish to.

    This is the main point of contention I have been trying to get at but have not been putting very well until now.


  • No, that isn’t really what I’m talking about.

    Sure, code quality matters.

    I’m talking about things like mastodon trying to push a certain outlook upon its users just because the main dev thinks they should be using it a certain way, and hating how people actually use it.

    It’s funny how you resort to personal insults to me even though I have not really to you. It’s true there are a lot of punctuation rules I do not understand. However, I would point out that this is not an english test, so it doesn’t matter.



  • There are two problems there:

    One is that not all open source developers accept payment, this is accurate, we have come across that refuse to be paid for their work and not everone has the money to pay for it.

    This forces, we believe, people back into the freemium etc model. So really there don’t seem to be a lot of good solutions here, which seems to go against the original post.

    Either folks somehow pool together to have enough resources to pay open source devs, we put up with whatever they decide to do, we create a new movement focused more around what the community wants or we go back to corporations, most will probably choose the latter as there’s less tension there.

    Something to think on.