The OSS community needs to separate "I will be severely inconvenienced if you do not assist me" from "You are obligated to assist me."
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This is *particularly* true of members of the OSS community who work for for-profit enterprises. You have a simple way to ensure assistance.
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If your systems break and your company can't make progress w/o the cooperation of a particular kid in a dorm room, well, Microsoft can help.
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I have complicated feelings with regards to "What we owe the community", which is a non-zero amount. It's not an employment relationship.
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If it were employment -- you know, with actual money involved -- the employee would have absolute right to sever for any reason whatsoever.
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Catholic social teaching instructs me to think "Withdrawing from one's community is not to be taken lightly; one is responsible to it."
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This is probably true of communities-of-choice like OSS is, in addition to communities which exist naturally. This can't be absolute though.
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Minimally, OSS asks people to trade family time for community participation, and I'd find it *very* hard to gainsay someone reversing that.
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This is complicated by ecosystem issues which make particular contributors Systemically Important, which when it happens *is a bug damn it.*
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The proper response to "A billion dollars -- companies, livelihoods, jobs -- vanishes if you get off the treadmill" is not "Stay on."
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It is "Well that is a very poor engineering choice being affirmatively made by a lot of people. Let's disconnect that treadmill."
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Does the guy on the treadmill generally owe it to the community to achieve disconnection in a timeframe convenient to them? Hard to buy that
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