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Don't be that guy. (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by hperrin@lemmy.world to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
 

When you're talking to an open source dev, just remember that they are literally giving you their time for free, and they are people who don't like to be treated poorly.

Edit: Just to be clear, I don’t mean any ill will toward the guy. He’s frustrated and he’s just taking it out in the wrong venue at the wrong people, but that doesn’t mean he’s a bad person.

Edit 2: The reinstalling he’s talking about is NPM. So just running npm install. It’s because he tried removing the node_modules directory, which is a reasonable thing to do, but it means you need to reinstall the modules with that command.

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[–] dannym@lemmy.escapebigtech.info 48 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I agree, BUT, you should pay anyways. FOSS developers should be paid

[–] DasAlbatross@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago (3 children)
[–] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 47 points 11 months ago

It is not FOSS, so I don't pay for it. Checkmate :)

[–] NotJustForMe@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I sometimes feel like I am the only one with that file. Yes sir, I sometimes feel sad when a good piece of software doesn't have a donation button or license to buy. Even if it does nothing.

Ditched Windows long ago though.

[–] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Now flathub has a built-in donate button (for some software)!

It would be great if it is implemented in gnome software too, so I don't need to search on flathub to donate to developers.

[–] dannym@lemmy.escapebigtech.info 2 points 11 months ago

I wish nix had something similar as I rarely use flatpaks

[–] dannym@lemmy.escapebigtech.info 1 points 11 months ago

Yes sir, I sometimes feel sad when a good piece of software doesn’t have a donation button or license to buy

Yep, I feel that too. There is too much gratis software that's actually good and I want to pay for but many FOSS developers are scared to ask for money for some reason

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

I really want to donate to ublock origin, but they don't take donations.

[–] dannym@lemmy.escapebigtech.info 1 points 11 months ago

I only used winrar when I was a kid. I've been using linux (and macos) for most of my life and before that I used 7zip for my zipping needs, so no winrar license for me.