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Damn.
I absolutely hate open source drama. I don't want to read your diary when I use your software, I want it to work.
I'm not even against running a parallel for-profit for extra features or corporate sponsorships. People gotta eat. I'd much rather have that than deal with following sob stories about ruthless leadership, ego clashes in contributors and endless forking because everybody thinks everybody else sucks.
The more I hang out around here, where OSS is a bit of a religion, the more disenchanted I am with it and the more I think the big game changer for this space is getting contributions on usability, production and business rather than code.
I think it's a people issue rather than FOSS issue. People interested in this stuff are just like that.
That's depressing for different reasons, but still a bummer.