@The_Assimilator said:
Jesus fuck, now I understand why blakey gets so uptight.
All of you douchebags saying "if you have a problem with the source or maintainer, just fork it" are MISSING THE FUCKING POINT. I don't WANT to fork a shitty FOSS application, and be responsible in perpetuity for the resulting forked source, and have to periodically diff and merge in changes from the original project. I just want my small change that makes the application better, to be merged into the main trunk so that I can download a binary from the project's official site and know it has that change in it.
The problem with FOSS is not the concept or the code, it's the people who run the projects and the culture of "I made this app so I am God of it". Bull fucking shit. If you put an app on the Internet, it's because you expect people to use it. If you expect people to use it, you'd better fucking well be prepared to accept criticism and suggestions from those people. And if you want them to continue using your app, you'd better fucking well DO SOMETHING about the criticism and suggestions you get.
Now you're succumbing to the same problem. The person who wrote the app is the god of it. Period. If they decide to update it, they're nice. If you've purchased the app, and they don't update it, then the app was probably not worth the money. If the app was free, than you literally have no grounds to complain. You did not pay for it. And I can tell you from experience, a lot of OSS developers put their app on the web because someone else might find it useful, but they've moved on, and don't care about it anymore.