Seriously, this thread is honestly vile and these people are a perfect example as to why this is happening.
How they are this blind to their own toxicity is beyond me
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 5 days ago
itt: a bunch of entitled Linux youths that don’t understand burnout or QOL.
dude has set a limit to what he wants or is willing to do. still gets called a bitch for defining the line and is still called an asshole.
some of y’all even bring up multiple cases of other foss devs doing/saying the same thing, continue to call them assholes.
🤔 There’s a pattern here…but I’m just too blinded by the brilliancy of my distro to see it…
douglasg14b@lemmy.world 5 days ago
michaelmrose@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I haven’t read anything VILE here. It’s happening because he’s both controlling and implicitly bad at maintaining said control. Had he not insisted on trying to control packages he would have had a working package like every other software project in the ecosystem that is properly maintained for free by other people’s labor.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 5 days ago
it’s honestly why I don’t open source any of my projects.
like, I want to make the world a better place but at the same time it cannot cost me my QOL because some entitled punk thinks they can demand shit from me.
michaelmrose@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I don’t think you have any projects anyone would use. If you did you could ust tell the imaginary entitled punk you don’t have time.
DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 4 days ago
You don’t have time to tell them all you don’t have time.
DaTingGoBrrr@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The problem has originated because he changed the lisence resulting in older versions being the only way to ship duckstation.
wigit@infosec.pub 4 days ago
I wonder if he received permission from all the other contributors to change the license of their contributions.
socsa@piefed.social 5 days ago
I just cannot wrap my head around an emulator dev who isn't daily driving Linux...
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I’m all for jerking around on Windows folks to use Linux in jest and fun, but to purposely shit on a major contributor of any foss for not using Linux makes my blood boil.
honestly, I hope the dev reads this and takes my advice.
as a Linux guy, run dude. fuck these assholes. they don’t deserve you time, your talent, or your efforts. gank your shit, rewrite the license, and block any Linux use. and make sure you call out the distro(s) responsible. sometimes assholes have to be put in their place to learn anything. even then, if history tells us anything they’re just going to go poison some other poor dev and forget about you.
michaelmrose@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The original code was GPL which he illegally re-licensed to creative commons.
deaddigger@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
If you are the copyright owner you can relicense any way you want learn some copyright law.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 4 days ago
fair enough, but that doesn’t mean he has to do everything anyone asks him. he’s still within his rights to close the source down and obliterate it from the internet. others will come and pick up the torch.
socsa@piefed.social 4 days ago
Not really sure how you read my comment as "shitting" on anyone. I'm just commenting that it's unexpected and unusual for a FOSS dev to not be Linux user. Idc what they do, just making the observation as someone involved in the FOSS space that most of my peers are more likely to shit on windows than Linux.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 4 days ago
you didn’t make an observation. you made a statement. you stated that it’s impossible to fathom why anyone doing foss would continue using Windows over Linux.
it’s not impossible, you just choose to disregard their personal preferences.
zonnewin@feddit.nl 4 days ago
Just open source it and leave it to the Linux community.
I understand not wanting to support something you don’t use yourself.
michaelmrose@lemmy.world 4 days ago
He chooses to do direct support over discord vs making people make github issues and wants to whine that this is taxing
michaelmrose@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I’m passing judgement. He’s a weirdo
febra@lemmy.world 4 days ago
People just expect open source devs that do this shit in their free time with absolutely no compensation to bend over for them and do everything they please. The good thing about open source development is that you can just help with the development yourself.
dustyData@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Yes, but no one can help this one developer because they changed the license. So now the project is just source available, not open source. They chose to be alone.
seralth@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Normally you’d be right, but in this case the guy just actually does have a history of being an a****** to everybody. This is very much a case of a developer being the problem.
He has a history of starting s*** being an a****** and then complaining when everyone else is an a****** to him.
That’s not even getting into. Basically every problem he is complaining about is of his own making or his own ignorance.
The whole aur problem is because of his own, very likely illegal license change
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
You know, you don’t need to censor yourself on here. I don’t think anybody’s going to be offended if you just write “shit” or “asshole”.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I thought they said ahunter2.
febra@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I understand. Thanks a lot for the info.
stormeuh@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I’d go further, you should help with the development. Seems like some people would rather spend hours hounding a developer to implement their thing, rather than figuring out how to do it themselves…
seralth@lemmy.world 4 days ago
He changed the license so no one can legally help him. He kind of put himself in this position. And very likely did so illegally
stormeuh@lemmy.world 4 days ago
OK I didn’t know that, stupid move on his part then… What do you mean by likely illegally?
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Except the Duckstation developer changed the license to where they don’t accept contributions from others, so we couldn’t help even if we wanted to.
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
youths
y’all
Reddit
BurgerBaron@piefed.social 4 days ago
Defending a dick head dev they know nothing about or their history and insulting end users under false assumption. Overly self righteous.
Yep, reddit as fuck.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
You might want to look up the meaning of the word “entitled”.
GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 4 days ago
G*mers are entitled pieces of shit.
Linux users are arrogant hipster assholes.
It’s a perfect storm for creating just the worst people ever. And that’s before we add the weird belittlement open source devs get.
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
Notice how the developer argues he forbids packages and how the AIR is in violation of this? But an AUR PKGBUILD is not a package - it’s build instructions. It doesn’t distribute or package anything, you can check it yourself. It’s not called “PKG” for a reason. He misunderstands his own license and believes the allegedly broken PKGBUILD violates it.
He may be right about some users annoying him with bug reports though I’d be surprised if it was that common. It seems like he got a couple of reports, noticed the “forbidden” PKGBUILD and then reacted like this. Just like when changing the license from GPL to CC-BY-NC-ND in order to combat… GPL violations and trademark infringements?
Frankly, the project has not had parricularly stable leadership in a while. Though a bit unfair of a comparison, compare it to Dolphin and you can see a night and day difference in project management.
RedFrank24@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Ironic that a guy who facilitates large amounts of piracy is complaining about violating license agreements.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 4 days ago
TIL dolphin can emulate psx.
wigit@infosec.pub 4 days ago
If someone wanted to maintain the PKGBUILD for this project, it’d be trivial to include a patch that removes the code he added trying to make it not build.
Or, to make sure to not be in breach of the no-derivatives part of his lisence, just reimplement it and ship with a patch that fixes his “blocker”.