Comment by curtisblaine

Comment by curtisblaine a day ago

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This level of incomprehensible drama is somehow the norm for open source projects. Lexicon around it is always the same. Problems are so far removed from real life that it's hard to understand what happened to whom. Why is it so widespread?

aniviacat a day ago

Is it, really? Most open source projects seem pretty boring. Just people doing their thing.

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pyeri a day ago

Yes, similar thing happened with Ruby gems community some days ago. Did the contributors got their access back now or Shopify is still controlling all the affairs?

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eska a day ago

It just takes one bad apple to spoil the entire batch.

This crap is why women look at me funny when I tell them I speak fluent Japanese as a white guy.

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input_sh a day ago

Because they're unpaid volunteers that spent a good chunk of their free time working on something and then something changes in its governance which makes them no longer feel valued?

How is that difficult to comprehend?

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