Rich Hickey (Clojure creator) Says Open Source is Not About You

Rich Hickey Rant on Open Source

basically, it's a conflict of interest between project owner and code contributors.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18538123

Rich Hickey is right. Basically, the open source ideology becomes a monster. Originally, it's that someone very nice, put time and energy to create software, free, with source code available. And, someone else saw it, also very nice, spent time and energy to contribute. Normally, both the owner, and the contributor, should be regarded with highest esteem. And, the relationship of owner and contributor is a friendship. You two work together only when both person like each other. It has no governance, all pure human endeavor and good will.

However, the ideology of open source and FSF turned into a monster. It became, some kinda public service machinery that churn out software, with “code of conduct” fuck, that somehow the creator owe you something when you have a problem. And that somehow taking your time to give freely as contributor is also a right and a duty and a way to benefit urself or something.

This is exactly what big corp like you to think. Software from Google, Apple, Facebook, npm, etc. They, are proprietary+evil to the hilt, yet use open source as badge of sainthood, and have code of conduct that somehow says it's your human right to give your time and energy to them, meanwhile that pseudo legal “code of conduct” verbiage works to axe you when they see fit.