Posts by Igor_O

Russian developers blocked from contributing to FOSS tools

Being part of civilization, access to civilized peoples labor results, using their knowledge and tools, AND SUPPORT KILLERS AND MURDERES who kill civilians in Ukraine??? No way! Ban russians everywhere until they realize they must stop their war.

Core-JS chief complains open source is broken, no one will pay for it

Re: Are these problems FOSS problems? Not at all - this is Denis problems

"Unfortunately, it appears that Denis might be the main, or even sole, developer of a valuable bit of open source software that many many other bits of software are dependent upon." -

this situation is common for open software. If library is valuable and main contributor die, or get in prison, or lost motivation - then souces are forked and supported by community. It is how FOSS model live and works for years.There are lot of examples around - starting from Matplotlib, to raiserfs, and so on....

Denis have problem - his income drop from 2400$ to 400$? OMG! Do you think this is problem for FOSS?

"Are you willing to take over development? Do you know someone who will?

That's the only way to make Denis' problem *not* a FOSS problem."

I never use his library and most likely will not. I'm sure somebody from Node community will handle this, as it happens many times before.

Are these problems FOSS problems? Not at all - this is Denis problems

"I am in favour of all the sanctions we can put on Russia, but that doesn't mean that I am not aware that they cause significant harm to ordinary people. "

I'm an ordinary people from Ukraine and Russia cause significant harm to me bombing my city, killing people everyday and destroying power plants around.

Are problems described in the article are FOSS problems? No. This is Denis problems. He kill somebody on road incident, his country kills hundreds civilians everyday and destroy country infrastructure. Why I should anybody consider Denis problems as FOSS problems? I don't see any connection. Denis life is his life and his choice.

I'm FOSS developer from Ukraine, Odessa. I,m developer of quite popular HTTP client library for Dlang for more than 5 years now.

When it comes to war and sanctions against agressor, you can't separate "ordinary" and "unordinary" people. Russian rockets do not distinguish ordinary and nonorfinary peoples when they hit our sities. Sorry, but this is war as it is and this is Russia who started it. So, let Denis send his thougts to Putin and other war supporters.

Re reward to FOSS developers - there are several form how this could be done, not only user donations. I will not get into details here, just short list: almost every orogramming language have funds to support some imoirtant projects. Large companies have funds with same goal. Alsi developer can work for full or part if day to company which use his library. Also he/she can set up private company to provide support for his product.

All this works in real life.

With regards..