<story><title>I&apos;m giving up on open source</title><url>https://nutjs.dev/blog/i-give-up</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lordleft</author><text>I will never understand how entitled or mean people can be towards OSS devs. I sympathize with this post a great deal and wish the author all the best in whatever he does next.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danielmarkbruce</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s mostly naivety. There are a lot of people who really don&amp;#x27;t understand that people are doing something without getting paid, as a side gig, just to be helpful. They just don&amp;#x27;t get it. An uncle, who is a totally decent human being otherwise would complain loudly and bitterly at folks who ran kids sporting events when things didn&amp;#x27;t run smoothly. At the time I didn&amp;#x27;t think much of it, until I was an adult and saw the adults running things things in their spare time despite having families and jobs etc. Just being good people. This uncle was just a very naive person, it&amp;#x27;s like he thought these people&amp;#x27;s entire existence was to run kids sporting events.</text></comment>
<story><title>I&apos;m giving up on open source</title><url>https://nutjs.dev/blog/i-give-up</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lordleft</author><text>I will never understand how entitled or mean people can be towards OSS devs. I sympathize with this post a great deal and wish the author all the best in whatever he does next.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>roenxi</author><text>It goes a bit beyond OSS; try doing anything important in life and you&amp;#x27;ll be a target sooner or later. Jealousy is a powerful force; ignorant mobs are powerful forces and there are a lot of evil opportunists in the mix. People really need to get a little more cynical at a young age. &lt;i&gt;Everyone&lt;/i&gt; should be doing things because they think it is in their personal best interests. People can still be altruists, but it is important to understand that is a personal belief in what a local optimum looks like and it can&amp;#x27;t be seen as a noble sacrifice.&lt;p&gt;I thought this dev&amp;#x27;s attitude was fairly healthy. Try something, see it didn&amp;#x27;t work, start charging.</text></comment>