I&#x27;m wondering why you&#x27;re getting down votes. Maybe someone who down votes could explain?<p>I&#x27;m a freshman when it gets to maintaining an open source project (just started with one, it&#x27;s on my user page), and am very interested in getting savvy on how to feel or judge things, hence I found your image welcome. I wouldn&#x27;t know whether it&#x27;s wrong or right, but I find it welcome as it&#x27;s strong, i.e. sticks around, my mind will compare it to real-world situations in the future and figure out over time whether it&#x27;s correct.<p>I think what the image points out is that you&#x27;re ultimately doing your own decisions, for your own benefit, and not doing it for anyone else unless you decide so. And I&#x27;d think that this is correct: I did believe that open source is something to improve the world, and standing against closed-source software, and hence if I saw that open source software was lacking, it felt wrong, and led me in a couple occasions to give strong statements to open source developers, which I guess were received exactly like the negative, demanding inputs criticized here. So I&#x27;m guilty of this myself. So now, while I realize that the other side (the user) wants to be appreciated, too and not doing that will lead to project failure (both of which might be the reason leading to the down votes here), it would be wrong to let that suck out your energy. And the picture of the cowboy primarily needing to survive himself seems fitting.<p>(PS.: I think what I&#x27;m advocating to accept here is more &quot;either you or me are going to survive&quot;, and not so much &quot;either you or me are going to die&quot;. These are not equivalent if there&#x27;s a middle ground where there are other outcomes than dying. Anyway, the OP points out even better solutions anyway, too.)<p>(Edit: thanks for the replies, I&#x27;ve appreciated them all.)