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Engineers are quite choosing beggars (https://www.reddit.com/r/ChoosingBeggars/) when it comes to OSS libraries.

Most of the time OSS libraries are completely free and provided as-is without warranties of any kind. Still people act as if they were a customer who has signed an SLA with the maintainers.

It's OSS, fix it yourself. Or pay someone real money to fix it. Or just buy a SaaS version or paid library. Or DIY.

Why would anyone be obliged to work for free for you?

(yes, some businesses have an OSS product, it changes things a little bit but even still it's as-is without any warranties)



Not only that, is the expectation that someone works for free, while naturally not wanting to work for free for themselves.




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