Why do evil programmers love open source software?

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[–]trident765[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

No it doesn't. There is a certain class of programmers who are evil in every way. They control every widely used open source software in the same way that evil dishonest moderators control almost every widely used subreddit. If a user of their software asks them a question they are often condescending or rude. If you report a bug they will tell you it's not a bug and you are using it wrong. And if it is something that is very obviously their problem like a memory leak, they will ask you questions about how you were using it until they can find something abnormal you did which they will use as an excuse to ridicule you and say that you are the problem and not their shitty software. And if you didn't do anything unusual, and you can reproduce the bug by running it in the canonical way, they will just lie and say to your face that you did something stupid and end the discussion. They have to do this because they program according to principles that result in bad software, so the only way they can avoid looking incompetent is by ridiculing those who report things that may make them look bad, ridiculing their competition, and forcing programmers who write better software than them to stop via dishonest political means.

Although almost all of them claim to care passionately about liberal causes, I don't think they truly care because everything is about image to them, so it would make sense for them to support causes that make them look like good, caring people. All of the evil programmers where I work have Twitter accounts, where they post about liberal causes daily. They are vocal in their support of Black Lives Matter, but I don't think they really care about blacks this passionately because they are all whites and I only ever see them associate with whites.

[–]Canbot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The point of open software is not so you can complain and have them fix it for you. It is so you can fix it yourself, improve it in any way you want, and publish the better version. As an impartial observer it sounds to me like you are the problem. No offense, just try to reflect a little.

[–]trident765[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Bullshit. When I tried to do this at work they tried to manipulate me into stopping for a few months before finally convincing upper management to intervene and shut my software down. There was a team of people at work who had adopted my software and they were banned from using it. But they kept using it because the evil scum offered no useful alternative, and they would keep asking me questions until finally last week I was informed that upper management has now banned from even talking to the head of this team.

It's not just that they don't want to fix their software. It's also that they force everyone to use their junk. The head of the team I mentioned told me if it were just one or the other it wouldn't be so bad, but the problem is that it is both.

[–]Canbot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That is not normal my guy. Stop extrapolating from that absurdity to the rest of the world.

If you can't get a straight answer as to why they are doing that it probably has a lot more to do with their software spying on you or producing something that can be data mined by them using some other software. It has nothing to do with them simply wanting you to use their software because it is their software.