Open Source is Not About You
Rich Hickey needs to stop poking people in the eye with a stick.<p>> You are not entitled to the attention of others. You are not entitled to having value attached to your complaints. You are not entitled to this explanation.<p>This could be handled much more diplomatically. What he's saying here is "fuck you and your needs". Opportunity cost waits for nobody, but taking a second to not provoke people is a good idea.<p>> We at Cognitect have to show up to work, every day, to make a living. We get no royalties of any kind from Clojure.<p>Ditto for the people who wrote open source libraries, some that are critical for Clojure's adoption. In fact they typically did this <i>after</i> working a 9-5, rather than during it.<p>> To be honest, I could use that money in my retirement account, having depleted it to make Clojure in the first place.<p>"Look how much I've suffered for you!" is about as effective for leadership as it is for parenting.<p>> But kindly don't burn the community down on your way out, with self-serving proclamations.<p>That's a nice "fuck you" to frustrated developers. "Shut up with your complaints and go away" is a bad community management technique.