On Sun, 2022-01-09 at 10:27 -0400, George N. White III wrote: > Growth in the numbers of users of open source software.has outpaced > the numbers working on development, documentation, and packaging. > I suspect many users are blindly following recipes found on the > internet or using code written but someone who is no longer with the > organisation. In economics this falls under the class of "free-rider" > problems where people want public services but aren't willing to fund > them. Maybe we need compulsory public service where youngsters are > put to work in the conventional ways (military, hospitals, etc.) or > software projects. Line 12, help I'm being held prisoner in a software factory ;-) There might just be more participation if bug reports weren't so-often ignored or shot down in flames (not a Fedora-specific complaint). -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.49.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Nov 30 15:51:32 UTC 2021 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
