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Volunteering cannot sustain critical software, because a volunteer’s life circumstances change and the project’s need does not.
Holds FVFilippo Valsorda
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The job has always been to solve human problems, and software is not required for every human endeavour.
Holds KHKelsey Hightower
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A contribution is a cost to the maintainer, not a gift: it is taking part, not merely using the code, that consumes a project’s scarcest resource.
Holds FVFilippo ValsordaNANadia Asparouhova
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Paying for open source is not a precondition of its sustainability; large projects can thrive while rejecting market-based terms entirely.
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David Heinemeier Hansson
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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.
Holds TDThomas Depierre
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Software developers spent thirty years automating other people's industries away, so they should not expect sympathy now that it is their turn.
Holds KHKelsey Hightower
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Whether anyone can actually do anything about how good the future is, rather than whether it matters, is the strongest objection to prioritising it.
Holds WMWilliam MacAskill
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Letting non-programmers build their own unmaintainable software is still a large step forward, because the alternative was a thousand-page requirements document and an eight-year wait.
Holds KBKent Beck
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Agents are driving a re-soloing of programming, undoing the safe social environment that extreme programming built for people who are not naturally social.
Holds KBKent Beck