[QGIS-Developer] Bug #21460?

[Casper Børgesen]

Hi Andrea

"I did not pay for open source software, hence I won't pay for support or bug fixing (let alone use my super precious personal time to help the community in other ways)".

What I have experienced is that I, as a frequent open source user in my line of work, have a difficult time convincing my boss to invest in something which is free (and thus inferior – not my opinion since I prefer the open source program). Which means that while I agree with your “madness” in

“And this is where I get mad :-D”,

your “madness” hits me and not the ones refusing to throw a few coins at helping us all fix a couple of bugs. I guess it’s just another example of how the purse-keeper doesn’t feel the frustrations, just the moneyless ☺

Regards, Casper

From: QGIS-Developer <qgis-developer-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> On Behalf Of Andrea Aime
Sent: 9. april 2019 20:00
To: Jonathan Moules <jonathan-lists at lightpear.com>
Cc: qgis-developer <qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: Re: [QGIS-Developer] Bug #21460?

On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 7:00 PM Jonathan Moules <jonathan-lists at lightpear.com<mailto:jonathan-lists at lightpear.com>> wrote:

Hi Andrea,

As always, I agree with you, but one thing:

> After all, the GPL license is really clear on the matter: "THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION"  Throwing one's frustration at the developers that shared code under the above conditions, while somehow understandable, really does not make sense and helps nobody.

To be fair you get the exact same conditions if you throw six digit sums to the proprietary vendors too.
Yes indeed, completely agree.
I kind of see an unfortunate tendency to repetition in users, a sort of "continuity" if you like:

  *   "I pay for proprietary software, hence I'll pay for support and fixing" (and agree that getting a fix is really hard, towards "mission impossible" levels, with large vendors)
  *   "I did not pay for open source software, hence I won't pay for support or bug fixing (let alone use my super-precious personal time to help the community in other ways)". And this is where I get mad :-D
Cheers
Andrea

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