> You have to be a real pos to not get invites to stuff...
The "real pos" is just as often those doing the excluding, as it is those being excluded. Pettiness doesn't disappear at 18 years old. It's hurtful to assume anyone being excluded from something deserved it.
It's more that there are maybe a thousand or so people in your highschool, but 7 billion on planet earth. If a thousand people (more like a couple of hundred the same age) exclude you then there are probably unfair network effects or someone poisoning the well against you, but at bigger scales everyone is a stranger and you get to start fresh.
In those cases I think it's more likely mental illness that stops you from making friends, but if no social group has accepted you after tens or hundreds of attempts then it's possible that there's something you might be able to change.
> I’d love to hear how he justifies taking away this engineers’ Sunday?
His posts on slack [1] show that he sees it as "either with us or against us", and he's willing to harm users to force them to choose a side instead of staying neutral. He probably hopes that people will blame WP Engine for it.
I think his real goal is tortious interference. Hurting devs who use ACF is just a bonus.
If the delivery service that transported my vendor's goods to me, suddenly started substituting their own product instead, I would sue them. I think my vendor would be pissed too, especially if the main difference is that their monetization was torn out.
This behavior would land people in jail in a more serious industry.
No... core volunteers who provide work to you for free, which you have been consuming successfully, have now extended the domain of their works to also encompass something on top you previously got from elsewhere.
The plugin you previously used was always completely dependent on the work of the core volunteers; you were always consuming their work and nothing changed about that. It just also already includes the optional plugin now.
Why would anyone end up in jail when everything is GPL2+?
When a user uses some open source software, there is no negative happening. They are not accumulating some debt that should be repaid by "contributing back." If they make a million dollars on it, that makes no difference to the project. Agreeing to a license and then following that license is not "bad faith."
The only damage being done when someone makes money using open source software, is to the ambitions and ego of a developer who imagined that "open source" meant "give me your contributions so I can build an empire." Fortunately, open source is for the benefit of all of us. Nobody owes them fiefs.
> There is a social contract that people should contribute back
No there isn't. The author gets to decide the contract, not you or anyone else.
I am the one who decides how to license my software. If I don't want to require my users to contribute, I don't have to. If I wanted to include such an obligation, I would have.
You don't get to hold users of my projects to unwritten, made-up obligations. You don't get to bully people online who aren't following your imaginary rules. My users and I have a contract. We both agreed to it. You don't get to step in between us and alter the agreement we made. How dare you.
The assertion that users must contribute to open source projects despite the license, is an attack on users, developers, and a just and free society. Developers must be able to license their software how they see fit. You want to take that freedom away from me, in the pursuit of hurting people you don't like.
Agreed. I’ve released software under GPL, MIT, and Apache2 at different times and for different reasons. No one owes me a thing other than what those licenses say they do. Morally, if someone gets rich off my code, it’d be awfully nice if they send some love and cash my way. That would be nice and honorable. They’re not obligated to, though.
I interviewed at a place whose sprint planning took a full week and was reportedly incredibly stressful. Customers participated. Their product was a website that agile teams used to track their process.
Indeed. By 2016 I think I had moved from "wow tedx is junk but official Ted still has some good stuff" to "man even the official ones really are more hype than substance are are in dire need of quality control"
> I suspect the primary issue is that there are simply way less people willing to work as letter carriers.
A family member of mine works for the post office in their city. They don't have trouble hiring for any positions. There is a long waiting list that takes months to get through to be given a chance at the bottom of the totem pole. The various postal unions give the jobs good benefits, pay, hours, etc. Carriers specifically are highly sought-after positions that can set you up for life.
It's not a matter of not being able to find people. it's not willing to hire more people. I would be very surprised if the post office in your town is trying to hire people, but nobody is willing to work. It's a great job, and people line up to work there.
