The open source paradox (2020)
I&#x27;m confused. What is the thesis of this post?<p>I guess they are saying that both bug reporters and open source maintainers care about software quality (generally excluding learning projects and research prototypes and the like).<p>No shit. I don&#x27;t think anyone has ever disputed that.<p>In the open source world we generally say that users are not entitled to anything. They get what we feel like giving, because they are not paying us.<p>This is just as true in the corporate world. If your manager tells you to do X, and some random on twitter wants you to fix bug Y, you do X not Y. The random on twitter probably cares about software quality too. That has no bearing on you probably ignoring them.