I mean there’s a reason why big tech love open source, and why they run smear campaigns against the GPL and AGPL. They don’t want collaboration on software, they just want free stuff.

You could develop something very useful just as a hobby and next thing you know you’re free engineering resources for Amazon. However, I don’t think that is the only reason for mental health breakdown. Redox OS isn’t a project of commercial interest at the moment (it may be if something crazy happens with Linux or it beats the BSDs), yet it is the source of this article. There are likely other factors at play. I think the least contributors and users of OSS can do is just be nice to people. I had this crazy argument on here over the wording of the Ventoy BLOB issue where people were trying to say that it’s acceptable just to insult people you don’t even know who are developing a project in the open for you to use for free.

tl;dr: Volunteers should be treated with absolute respect, I think open source is taken too seriously.

Before you complain that this is an old article, read the post body!

Yeah Mario Kart or I call the cops

I used to self host Gitea, just private repos for university assignments and other personal projects that I was going to open source one day (I have a real problem with finishing things). Then a big storm hit where I live and the internet was out for 2 weeks (I could still use my phone if I stood in the right spot), over that time I was able to work locally but for when I was out and about I couldn’t collaborate on anything because I couldn’t access it so I begrudgingly moved to GitHub.

At least with GitHub I get very reliable and fast hosting even if everything I write is being fed to AI. Their search is also amazing.

I do plan, however on getting Forjego set up for private stuff again, because some stuff cannot be made public. When the day comes that I finish something and open source it, I’ll probably put it on Codeberg. Hopefully my project will be good enough that people are driven to join Codeberg to get involved.

As for my GitHub account, I won’t be able to ditch that so I may continue to fix random bugs and typos I come across. I wouldn’t want to impose my beliefs on someone else’s project

That’s what the founder of ublue said about it in a video I watched the other month. Love the spirit behind that project

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