Mastodawn

nixCraft 🐧Jul 15, 2023

This is what IBM demands from open-source developers. Meanwhile, they cried about the RHEL source code and called those distro users freeloaders or parasites. Anyway, FLOSS devs don’t own anyone anything. If you need support, pay for the contract. The sad thing is IBM/RHEL said they need to pay for their devs, and when you take it free, it is hard to maintain enterprise distro, but when it comes to other FLOSS devs/projects, they don't think the same logic applies. LOL https://twitter.com/maximilianhils/status/1680193548212228097

Maximilian Hils on Twitter

“No, it was not a joke. "Our paying customers need X, when will you fix it?" may not be the best way to introduce yourself to an open source project. #TodayInOpenSource”

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[object Object]Jul 16, 2023

@nixCraft this is the second time in about a month I’ve seen a big company nonsensically call a single dev’s request to pay them or fuck off a “thinly veiled extortion attempt”; the first was Reddit and Apollo’s dev

also, I didn’t expect to see an example of a red hat employee being toxic and demanding free labor so soon after my last post talking about this, but I’ll take it as a sign it’s getting worse

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Hak Foo

Jul 16, 2023

@zzt @nixCraft You'd think there would be a block of legalese boilerplate which you could put in repos that translates to "this project is not commercially backed, so any timelines, fixes or enhancements are solely at my whim until and unless I'm being paid for them."

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@hakfoo @nixCraft to be honest, it feels like a corporation like ibm could easily ignore legal boilerplate if they really wanted their lawyers to bankrupt somebody. if large corporations want to play like this, it’s not going to be worth working with them in any capacity for individual devs