<![CDATA[Open Source Does Not Imply Open Community]]>Open source software has existed long before the invention of the (D)VCS. The author likely hosted a barebones HTML webpage or a txt file describing the project. There definitely was an FTP server somewhere with tarballs. The author may have been reachable by email.

]]>https://billboard.bsd.cafe/topic/130/open-source-does-not-imply-open-communityRSS for NodeSun, 17 May 2026 21:45:40 GMTFri, 01 May 2026 11:52:26 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Open Source Does Not Imply Open Community on Fri, 15 May 2026 21:50:27 GMT]]>grahamperrin said:

One or two bad eggs can spoil an omelette.

… and now, the omelette is thoroughly spoilt.

]]>https://billboard.bsd.cafe/post/466https://billboard.bsd.cafe/post/466Fri, 15 May 2026 21:50:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Open Source Does Not Imply Open Community on Sun, 03 May 2026 16:04:15 GMT]]>Parallel discussions:

Nit: I don't like the Douglas Adams pretence.

The heart of the problem isn't at the GitHub level; it's people, at any level. One or two bad eggs can spoil an omelette.

… No "community". No politics. No Code of Conduct. No pull requests or issues. No wiki. No core team. …

Worth reading (the author is a FreeBSD ports committer):

Eggs

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– Doorverts – SDDC

]]>https://billboard.bsd.cafe/post/376https://billboard.bsd.cafe/post/376Sun, 03 May 2026 16:04:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Open Source Does Not Imply Open Community on Fri, 01 May 2026 14:25:11 GMT]]>

Free yourself. Go back to the old ways. Especially if you're angry about the influx of new people and AI bots stealing your attention... Whatever you do, don't get tricked into running an operation that's half tech incubator and half daycare for people whose parents gave them a keyboard and no social skills.

👏 🍻

]]>https://billboard.bsd.cafe/post/363https://billboard.bsd.cafe/post/363Fri, 01 May 2026 14:25:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Open Source Does Not Imply Open Community on Fri, 01 May 2026 13:37:42 GMT]]>I was afraid this is a thread defending Discord, but yeah, totally agree. I mean, it's probably better to be friendly about things in general and not insist that people send you a SASE so they can get your code on a CD-R…

]]>https://billboard.bsd.cafe/post/361https://billboard.bsd.cafe/post/361Fri, 01 May 2026 13:37:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Open Source Does Not Imply Open Community on Fri, 01 May 2026 12:48:24 GMT]]>In early days of Internet for "consumers", the resources allowed were far more limited, and connections were "dial-up" basis. So most "near-open" solution was to connect to more ancient BBS services via telnet access points (i.e., NIFTY serve in Japan which [I heared] is Compu-serve alike), but not all BBS services that anyone can subscribe (with or without fee) provided such an connections. So open communities for open source codes were difficult to start up.

But now, we have excellent services like here.

]]>https://billboard.bsd.cafe/post/360https://billboard.bsd.cafe/post/360Fri, 01 May 2026 12:48:24 GMT