interesting fact: ~everyone who learned that SolveSpace's development is not as fast as it could be due to my health -and- responded has, as their only concern, the future of the project. "oh noes mah updates. if i give you one dollar it'll fix everything right"
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(this excludes the people who actually contribute something to the project, of course, other than unactionable complaints)
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fuck the guy who went out of his way to badmouth me on Hacker News in particular
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This is my experience with open source. I spend most of my time and energy working on GrapheneOS. It's a massive project and I desperately need help with development. I spend a lot of my time working on public documentation and making it easier to contribute but people don't.
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Every day, I spend at least an hour defending myself and GrapheneOS from people spreading attacks on my character and the project. There are endless attacks / attempts to spread misinformation publicly and privately. I feel I need to counter it to have any hope of contributions.
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I talk about how my work on the project and how I'm being treated are severely impacting my health and no one seems to care. They'll just give uninformed advice and criticism, always expecting that the solution is that I should do even more work and take on more responsibilities.
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I've put an enormous amount of time into open source, including spending years working on it full time with zero income from it. I learned computer science and programming as part of contributing to open source. Over and over, people just take advantage of me and screw me over...
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It's not a good experience. I would probably be happier working on the projects in private without publishing them. I'm tired of being contacted with endless business proposals and offers for help that never pan out. It's one attempt after another to profit from the work I do.
Something that bothers me is when people clearly very interested in the projects who have a lot of free time available claim they can't help because they don't know the languages/libraries or the specific codebases involved. I'm not sure how they think I ever got anything done.
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I could even buy contributors workstations and test devices with donations to improve their productivity, and I've often been in a position to get people paid for their work, but I can never find anyone that's actually going to do productive work. Can't just trust that they will.
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