@488cf7e2 I too have found it very strange how hostile some of the FSF/GNU people are to collaboration with some projects being impossible to even contact. I always thought that motivation wise they were in the first group but their behavior shows otherwise. They don't seem to be in the second group though, certainly their behavior doesn't seem self interested... It is a puzzle...
@488cf7e2 If the only people in the first group were those able to directly contribute to every piece of software they ever used, the first group would consist of the three LISPheads who still load their software using a cassette tape. No one in the modern world is capable of contributing to everything, there's just too much. Am I wrong in thinking that your motivations lie with the first group though?
It took me far too long to see that there are two distinct groups of people who love open source/Free software:
1. Those who primary motivation is to build things together and create a more open and collaborative world.
2. Those who don't want to pay for anything or be told what to do.
The later motivation is not a bad motivation but it is a self interested motive. I continuously on find myself surprised when people from the later group are totally out of alignment with my own values.
I guess the interesting thing is that it is hard to distinguish between these two mindsets by simply looking at a person or seeing what stickers they have on their laptops. You really have to know a person. And of course, the line is often blurred, because no one likes to pay for things or be told what to do.
@c11fa870 If Trump had been a private citizen (perhaps he was a candidate who hadn't been elected yet), would it have been legal for him to call the governor of Georgia and ask him to 'find the votes'?
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