diff --git "a/About-this-\"your-software\"-mindset.md" "b/About-this-\"your-software\"-mindset.md" new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c673ad4 --- /dev/null +++ "b/About-this-\"your-software\"-mindset.md" @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +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. \ No newline at end of file