With regards to interpreting the laws, I mostly agree with you, although I certainly haven’t delved as deep into the true meaning of law in society.
But I still don’t understand what you actually expect from maintainers of free and open source software. In prior comments you have used words like “empathy” but I’m wondering in more specific terms what you mean. What should be maintained, and what should be abondoned? What should stay stable and what should be updated?
I ask because when you say stuff like
> I am just deeply saddened how any attempt to suggest that there were and should still be some implied cultural norms regarding expectations
I’d feel very differently about that comment based on the “expectations” that are “implied”.
And perhaps your answers might help me out a bit, to be honest. There are plenty of times when I use an open source library and get annoyed by the decisions of upstream developers, but I often wonder if my annoyance should be directed at upstream at all, or at myself.
But I still don’t understand what you actually expect from maintainers of free and open source software. In prior comments you have used words like “empathy” but I’m wondering in more specific terms what you mean. What should be maintained, and what should be abondoned? What should stay stable and what should be updated?
I ask because when you say stuff like
> I am just deeply saddened how any attempt to suggest that there were and should still be some implied cultural norms regarding expectations
I’d feel very differently about that comment based on the “expectations” that are “implied”.
And perhaps your answers might help me out a bit, to be honest. There are plenty of times when I use an open source library and get annoyed by the decisions of upstream developers, but I often wonder if my annoyance should be directed at upstream at all, or at myself.