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I'm sorry, but this is an utterly idiotic opinion. You're attacking developers who have nothing at all to do with your grievances.

Now, I do agree with you that funding funneled through a middleman always deviates toward what that middleman expects. Foundation-based funding is problematic on so many levels, and direct financial support definitely makes much more sense.

But back to your actual point: Writing code is expression. It's equivalent to free speech, and because of that, you're fundamentally wrong to dictate what or how anyone else should express themselves.

Sure, plenty of developers are dicks. Fine—then don't use their software. Don't buy it. Don't download it. If it's FOSS, fork it. The sky is the limit!

Just stop telling others what they should or shouldn't do.

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Matt 10mo ago

And in case I didn't make it clear enough, this post is for professional software developers (hence the bits about being paid), not hobby developers. Those are two completely different things.

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