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chrisseaton on Aug 25, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Fix it, Fork it, Fuck off (2019)

But it's the other way around - why would you pay someone who was also using your work for free?

chris_wot on Aug 25, 2022 [–]

What’s your point? If you have a popular project and you won’t accept a valid patch, a bit of polite criticism isn’t going to hurt you.

Happened with the OpenOffice.org project. Caused the fork.

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