Source: I am a maintainer of several projects. Some that are used extensively. And I take bug reports seriously, even if I can't always get to them right away.
"it's free, go away" is a real problem. Denying it won't make anything any better or help FOSS get adopted for anything other than servers.
I have experienced it many times before, and almost every time I've gone back to propriety software and breathed a sigh of relief.
Source: I am a maintainer of several projects. Some that are used extensively. And I take bug reports seriously, even if I can't always get to them right away.
"it's free, go away" is a real problem. Denying it won't make anything any better or help FOSS get adopted for anything other than servers.
I have experienced it many times before, and almost every time I've gone back to propriety software and breathed a sigh of relief.