Development quote of the week [LWN.net]

I do find it ironic that the open source community is so irate about having to compile software from source to customize it the way they want.

— Matt Holt

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Development quote of the week

Posted Sep 21, 2017 12:49 UTC (Thu) by pizza (subscriber, #46) [Link] (3 responses)

The full article behind this quote is well worth reading.

Development quote of the week

Posted Sep 21, 2017 15:43 UTC (Thu) by jezuch (subscriber, #52988) [Link] (1 responses)

Agreed; especially the part about rights and responsibilities of users and maintainers.

Development quote of the week

Posted Sep 21, 2017 18:18 UTC (Thu) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link]

Once I'd read to the part about it being posted on HN I pretty much knew what was coming. The Orange Site is only half a step above imageboards for being petty, toxic and feral.

Development quote of the week

Posted Sep 22, 2017 0:48 UTC (Fri) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]

Agreed. Another good quote:

> I, along with most FOSS maintainers, have nothing to lose. Remember that next time you think you can weaponize a project’s potential (or lack of) success against its owner or maintainers.