I am not talking about free open source software here.
Two things I meant more specifically:
- Not every indie product is open source, so “send a PR” is often not an option.
- I am mainly talking about paid products. If a developer charges money and asks users to trust them early, I think some basic follow-through comes with that.
I have a lot of respect for open source maintainers. That is a very different relationship.
I have lived in villages and cities in different continents. This abstraction you speak of isn’t limited to the US. Asian and European cities are the same. People don’t tend to socialize a lot with their neighbors in the cities as much as they did and still do in the villages.
Is this capitalism? Is it technology (I’m not talking about computers) induced narcissism? Is it because we reduce ourselves and others to metrics and then use yardsticks to incessantly measure ourselves on a broken scale?
Two things I meant more specifically:
- Not every indie product is open source, so “send a PR” is often not an option. - I am mainly talking about paid products. If a developer charges money and asks users to trust them early, I think some basic follow-through comes with that.
I have a lot of respect for open source maintainers. That is a very different relationship.