Large enough portions of the FOSS community that plenty of us can relate.
> What "silly child" abuses unpaid maintainers? Oh, right, you.
Filing a bug report is not abuse, it's literally why there are bug trackers. Take a good long look at what you're doing here and ask why it might be that people hate dealing with people like you.
>Filing a bug report is not abuse, it's literally why there are bug trackers. Take a good long look at what you're doing here and ask why it might be that people hate dealing with people like you.
Doing a quick search to see if the bug you are reporting has been reported before is a requirement on pretty much every single one of them though
Still not an excuse for being a dick to the person reporting it.
This is one of my pet peeves with the FOSS community: they want to be taken seriously as an alternative to proprietary software, but they are completely unwilling to act like professionals in any way, and then the complain that people are sticking with proprietary alternatives.
>they want to be taken seriously as an alternative to proprietary software
They are.
>but they are completely unwilling to act like professionals in any way, and then the complain that people are sticking with proprietary alternatives.
Yet, chances are you are using an open source web browser to access an open source web server through a lot of piping that is modern networking, with open source parts inside and out.
> Yet, chances are you are using an open source web browser
You mean this browser run by and for a gigantic multinational advertising corporation who's de-facto monopoly on the browser market is a subject of frequent griping?
What "silly child" abuses unpaid maintainers? Oh, right, you.
If you just want somebody whose job is to listen to you complain, there are companies that will sell you a contract for that.