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Questions for the retention and building of community audiences, as well as the contributor and developer communities, that concern open projects.

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How to deal with unaddressed bug reports?

Ultimately, if the developers are working on the project as a labor of love, they're going to work on what they want to work on. You can't expect them to prioritize your issue just because you asked t …
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Why are open source projects so broken and apathetic if they are run by idealists?

I read your question as, "Why are free and open source projects difficult to use and lack documentation?" This is fundamentally a matter of the economics of available development resources, so I'll ap …
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Does license prohibition of illicit / malicious use or modification clash with GPL's freedom...

Simply put, a requirement to seek outside approval in order to make or deploy changes is not GPL-compatible, nor is it even a requirement within the definitions of free and open-source software. Part …
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