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Hrmmm... while your comment is intended in good faith, I think it actually does a disservice to open source.

I've seen plenty of terrible quality closed source projects and even some impressive high quality closed source projects that were still imperfect and open to human error.

I don't think we should have lower levels of scrutiny or expectations from open source projects. I do think the gp's criticism was exaggerated and unwarranted for any project, open or closed.




On the other hand, it also displays the unbelievable entitledness of many, many people in tech, that feel right to not only shit on the work that others have provided for free (when they're probably going to use it in projects that make actual money), but also have the gall to say that the maintainers should fix it faster.

It's open source, you've seen the error and you know how to fix it. Make a pull request yourself.




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