When you’re talking to an open source dev, just remember that they are literally giving you their time for free, and they are people who don’t like to be treated poorly.

Edit: Just to be clear, I don’t mean any ill will toward the guy. He’s frustrated and he’s just taking it out in the wrong venue at the wrong people, but that doesn’t mean he’s a bad person.

Edit 2: The reinstalling he’s talking about is NPM. So just running npm install. It’s because he tried removing the node_modules directory, which is a reasonable thing to do, but it means you need to reinstall the modules with that command.

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YOU 👏 ARE 👏 NOT 👏 OWED 👏 CUSTOMER 👏 SERVICE 👏 FOR 👏 USING 👏 THIS 👏 SOFTWARE 👏

YOU 👏 ARE 👏 NOT 👏 OWED 👏 A 👏 WARRANTY 👏

Don’t like it? Pay for your software :)

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48 points

I agree, BUT, you should pay anyways. FOSS developers should be paid

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16 points

Show me your winrar license!

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47 points

It is not FOSS, so I don’t pay for it. Checkmate :)

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I sometimes feel like I am the only one with that file. Yes sir, I sometimes feel sad when a good piece of software doesn’t have a donation button or license to buy. Even if it does nothing.

Ditched Windows long ago though.

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I only used winrar when I was a kid. I’ve been using linux (and macos) for most of my life and before that I used 7zip for my zipping needs, so no winrar license for me.

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Don’t like it? Pay for your software :)

Most people happily will. So the year of the Linux desktop will always be n+1

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The nightmare just crawls out to our reality when paid software is less developed on and more buggy than free Open Source software.

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That’s because the people making it are doing it for a job rather than for the love of it. (Except me. Surely I don’t do that.)

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Did you know that “payed” is a naval term. See Grammarly on Payed for more information

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Haha whoops. Thanks

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