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Raymond Hill 2015-03-28 11:33:16 -04:00
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This is a response to the "your software" mindset I have seen many times. I will quote a statement from a real occurrence (the context does not matter). My emphasis:
> You should appreciate people using **your** software and **taking the time** to report bugs.
This statement has bothered me when I read it, because it misses completely the big picture.
> **your** software
uBlock is licensed GPLv3. If you click the "Fork" button at the top of a project's Github page, this software becomes **yours**.
Try it.
So now that this software is **yours**, re-consider this part of the sentence:
> taking the time
Now that the software is **yours**, what apparently you saw as some sort of favor ("taking the time"), was actually a favor to yourself in retrospect, and also in retrospect, you hopefully can now appreciate the _huge_ amount of time spent by others on what is now **your** software.