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Veterans of the 1990s free software movement do not understand the world today’s maintainers work in, and should listen before proposing fixes for it.
Drawn from what Thomas Depierre said
Subjectopen source
What Thomas Depierre actually said
- Thomas Depierre Software engineer and open source maintainer
This is not the same world that you were part of. The complexity is off the chart; we are hidden layers and layers under the scaffolding. And we are used everywhere.
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↗You Are All On The Hobbyists Maintainers’ Turf Nowsoftwaremaxims.com
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