Demanding that he change what he has written
I'm not doing this.
WesternInfidels
joined 4 months ago
He took shortcuts because he wants to spend time sailing his boat instead.
I say: Go sail your boat then.
He would need to spend more time working on rsync to make you happy.
This is called "putting words in my mouth" and it is the reason you're an asshole.
Every time something like this happens, there's a community outcry: "What a shitty thing to do!"
And every time, there's a chorus of wannabe libertarians that come crawling out of the woodwork shrieking "HE HAS EVERY RIGHT TO SCREW US OVER." As if that's a counterpoint to anything at all. As if that's making a contribution to any conversation.
Demanding he work for free
Where is this happening?
Opinions are shit and don’t prove anything.
You're so self-righteous, you're plowing through stuff without reading what you're responding to. This isn't what you said before, and even your clarification makes no sense in context.
It doesn't work, anyway. If you can't build the shelf yourself, what compels the carpenter to make it to your specifications? Even if you paid him? Nothing.
The trouble is, you insist on framing this in terms of the carpenter's rights. It's an impoverished view. No one else is looking at it that way, no one is disputing his rights.
There's a pickup truck in my neighborhood sporting a gigantic custom bumper sticker / sign railing against socialism and communism. The owner drives his truck, on public roads, to the municipal community center, which is where I've seen it parked.
It's a good thing that guy doesn't have any capacity for self-reflection, I guess, because he'd probably die of embarrassment.
So the fact that not everyone can be a carpenter would become the carpenter's problem, if I had paid him?
Huh?
in his yard
The whole point of giving it away is that it won't just be in his yard anymore.
that’s his right
Yep, you can argue that the carpenter is within his rights. That's always a sign that the actor in question is behaving in a constructive way, isn't it, when the best defense is to run directly to the finer points of what that actor is legally permitted to do?
"That's his right" is a very narrow lens with which to view the situation. It's not a POV you'd even choose to bring to the discussion unless you had already decided on the question. It does nothing to address the real-world problems and complaints that are happening. It's pretty much changing the subject.
Would you make the same "within their rights" argument if the carpenter was Google? Microsoft?
people want him to build his bridge their way and keep using his bridge.
I don't think that's accurate. People who rely on rsync want some kind of clear path forward, the option to use something similar in quality to the older versions. If that's not the original rsync project run by the orginal rsync developer, no one will care much.
It would have been possible for the developer to turn over mainline rsync to someone else, and to go down his AI powered rabbit hole on his own. He could have done all the stuff that was "his right" without being disruptive.
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I guess the one thing that really gets my goat is when other people read the words that I chose so carefully disingenuously or dishonestly.