Open source is not about you (2018)
As much as I respect Rich Hickey, it&#x27;s hard to say anything positive about this. It has basically nothing to do with open source. It&#x27;s <i>entirely</i> specific to how he chooses to run his own projects.<p>Open source is not a gift in the sense that you &quot;get what they give you&quot;. You are entitled to the source code. You are entitled to modify the code. You are entitled to distribute your modifications.<p>Are you entitled to be part of the development process and to state your opinions about how things are going? Yes...if those are the rules of the project. The thing is, that has nothing to do with open source, it&#x27;s always project-specific, so the full post largely doesn&#x27;t make any sense as a comment on open source.