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giov4yesterday at 6:01 PM2 repliesview on HN

unbelievable, how can a single person affect negatively FOSS so much?

I mean really, closing repos? excluding maintainers? committing only on private repos?

This type of behavior should be moderated and banned from any FOSS activity to avoid exactly this situation of becoming a liability.

I've never seen a open source project page without a github link or a git clone ref like this https://www.encode.io/hx/ it is so ridiculous, wasn't that stuff on github? and isn't it anyway there due to over 1k forks?

what's the advantage of having this behavior? I see it only damaging towards the person, the project and the community.


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mmerickelyesterday at 9:16 PM

This level of entitlement is the reason that FOSS has a maintenance / support epidemic. Maintainers don't owe you anything. They put the work in, not you.

trallnagyesterday at 7:11 PM

Maybe mental health issues? We aren't entitled to indefinite maintenance of free software