The overwhelming majority of Linux users are on 4 distros + derivatives. Debian Fedora Arch Suse not “thousands”

Where would what end? Most actually open source projects just publish releases to source and provide as much or as little support as they feel like. Slap a github issues page up and tell every user that you are only interested in dealing with bugs in the most recent version in whatever official channel you prefer eg provide appimage of releases and insist that users reproduce and document bug.

Time wasted mostly wont even bother to create a github account and if they do close issues if they can’t follow directions.

Just because it’s open source doesn’t mean it’s necessarily open for all uses. His license explicitly denied using his code in packages. People did it anyway.

There exists pkgbuilds for arch and previously packages of the older GPL builds.

A pkgbuild is just a recipe for each users computer do do the stuff needed to fetch and or build publicly available software. It is copyright the writer of the recipe not the owner of the software thus fetched. That is to say the owner of foobar can’t copyright the functional equivalent of a bash script which does git clone and make install foobar.

The older versions thereof are still available under the GPL and aren’t subject to being removed.

Neither of these are actually subject to the authors whims. He doesn’t own the pkgbuild and if he chooses to offer the file to users they can download it either by manually git cloning it or having a script do it.

So no they didn’t “do it anyway”

You can just not publish your actual contacts and choose what you will and wont offer support on your public facing persona.

Most people arguing from analogies are doing so because they can’t actually make a coherent argument against THING so they make a bad analogy and then expect you to unwind the 17 ways the analogy and the thing are different. This being a waste of time. I’ll just tell you that your analogy is trash and you should do better.

It is the simple truth

It would be saner to drop direct tech support than to drop support for an operating system

He chooses to do direct support over discord vs making people make github issues and wants to whine that this is taxing

The original code was GPL which he illegally re-licensed to creative commons.

I’m passing judgement. He’s a weirdo

I don’t think you have any projects anyone would use. If you did you could ust tell the imaginary entitled punk you don’t have time.

I haven’t read anything VILE here. It’s happening because he’s both controlling and implicitly bad at maintaining said control. Had he not insisted on trying to control packages he would have had a working package like every other software project in the ecosystem that is properly maintained for free by other people’s labor.

Can we talk about “afflicks” Choosing to spell like a 4 year old when spell check is pervasively available…

From the first one

One profile the New Times uncovered supposedly of a philandering ex-boyfriend was actually a gay man who had spurned a woman’s advances.

No. They don’t actually use sources and can’t tell you why they said what they said. This actually reverses cause and effect the source is part of the inference and since it didn’t and in fact can’t go and read them frequently contains both imaginary sources and sources which don’t actually support the assertion.

The ability to evaluate the source requires the same skills and information as the production of the original text would have required which means perforce if you use chatGPT to produce text which you lack the skills to produce you also lack the skills to evaluate it.

You COULD go and read primary sources and in turn evaluate it but at that point its not that quick.

There are plenty of schools in Europe. There is no reason for essentially the equivalent of 1930s Jewish people to study in essentially Hitler’s Germany in the 30s right when the smarter people were getting out.