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Reminds me a lot of Rich Hickey's "Open Source is not about you" gist:

https://gist.github.com/richhickey/1563cddea1002958f96e7ba95...

The first few paragraphs really stuck with me in how I think about the OSS that I use.

The tone is blunt, but the content is spot-on.

For more context around what specifically is going there: https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/a0pjq9/rich_hickey...

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I think there's partly a generational divide there. I remember when GNU software was released as tarballs on a schedule of roughly "whenever the maintainer decides to cut a release" and CVS access was limited to the core maintainer(s).

> If you have expectations (of others) that aren't being met, those expectations are your own responsibility. You are responsible for your own needs. If you want things, make them.

Great advice for life generally.

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