Another Linux lie: we are for the benefit of humankind

So, yours faithful uses a piece of FOSS software, for a long time, and enjoys it. To pay back the community, yours faithful develops an accessory piece of software that parses the former's logs and generates reports from them, in a user-friendly fashion. This is valuable to that software's user base because it enables them to enhance their security. Nice and dandy, isn't it?

Yours faithful posts about his latter software on the former software's support forum and shares it, and users positively welcome the accessory and proceed to use it to their heart's content.

Fast forward the next release of the former software. Yours faithful's software breaks. Why? Because the former software's logs now have different format, in that little bit that yours faithful's software used. Nowhere else, just in that little bit. The devs changed the format, to screw everyone over. Without anybody's request, without any pressing need, just to demonstrate that they are dicks, scumbags, stinky POSs, assholes.

If you, people, go out of your way to do THAT, then we have a bigger problem than Putin's Russia, Xi's China, and Kim's North Korea: you are the problem and an unsolvable one. You suck.

Posted by: LinuxLies at 10:21 AM | No Comments | Add Comment
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