When you’re talking to an open source dev, just remember that they are literally giving you their time for free, and they are people who don’t like to be treated poorly.

Edit: Just to be clear, I don’t mean any ill will toward the guy. He’s frustrated and he’s just taking it out in the wrong venue at the wrong people, but that doesn’t mean he’s a bad person.

Edit 2: The reinstalling he’s talking about is NPM. So just running npm install. It’s because he tried removing the node_modules directory, which is a reasonable thing to do, but it means you need to reinstall the modules with that command.

  • Danny M
    491·
    9 months ago

    I agree, BUT, you should pay anyways. FOSS developers should be paid

      • NotJustForMe
        40·
        9 months ago

        I sometimes feel like I am the only one with that file. Yes sir, I sometimes feel sad when a good piece of software doesn’t have a donation button or license to buy. Even if it does nothing.

        Ditched Windows long ago though.

        • baseless_discourse
          20·
          9 months ago9 months ago

          Now flathub has a built-in donate button (for some software)!

          It would be great if it is implemented in gnome software too, so I don’t need to search on flathub to donate to developers.

          • Danny M
            20·
            9 months ago

            I wish nix had something similar as I rarely use flatpaks

        • Danny M
          10·
          9 months ago

          Yes sir, I sometimes feel sad when a good piece of software doesn’t have a donation button or license to buy

          Yep, I feel that too. There is too much gratis software that’s actually good and I want to pay for but many FOSS developers are scared to ask for money for some reason

      • Danny M
        10·
        9 months ago

        I only used winrar when I was a kid. I’ve been using linux (and macos) for most of my life and before that I used 7zip for my zipping needs, so no winrar license for me.