A cartoon showing a tall tower of blocks. The tower is labeled “all modern digital infrastructure.” One tiny block near the bottom is labeled “a project some random person in nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003.”

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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 21-Sep-2025 02:33:29 JST Paul Cantrell

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   I’d venture that the situation depicted in the classic and obligatory xkcd on the topic (https://xkcd.com/2347/) is rooted in the failure to distinguish (1) and (2).

   So is a lot of OSS burnout: somebody shares something cool in the spirit of (1), maybe even tries to be a good individual steward of it, and next thing you know people are beating down their door with demands and complaints as if they are (2).

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