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Open Source Maintainers Owe You Nothing (mikemcquaid.com)

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Post from 2018 but still valid. https://mastodon.social/@mikemcquaid/112211808720492947

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[-] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago

Every open source software has a maintainer. In case of it being maintained by 'community', it is maintained by a person who pretends all are included.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

This. There nearly never is a community, at least in practice. Bigger projects have different roles, but its mostly "if you dont know how to code, you are likely not helping"

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