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I've been using Open Source for decades now but I still can't get over how many people in that space immunize themselves (and their life decisions and bound identity) by denying everyone the right to criticize anything unless they themselves have put in hours upon hours of coding work.

"You can fork it or send a patch."

Yeah. So people who can't code have no right to complain at all, right? What's with people fluent in a programming language that the project doesn't even use? Is their criticism also invalid?

Really confirms what I wrote in https://tante.cc/2025/03/03/who-is-free-software-for/ :
"Because what we are selling isn’t a solution to people’s actual problems but a new identity. And most people already got one of those."