False. Empoyees of a 2 billion dollar corporation deciding to demand free labour from the community to accommodate what they've decided by fiat is the new Right Way is incredibly insulting. The tmux developers do not exist to serve your whims. The community is not here to save you money.
Isn't the usual answer to this, "If you don't like it, fork it?"
If you work on a large FOSS project, you will spend a lot of your time reacting to decisions made by other people. You won't agree with all of them. Some of those decisions will be made by $2B companies, some of them will be made by influential individuals like Linus and Lennart. Still others were made 20 years ago by some anonymous person in their basement.
Either way, if your complaints fall on deaf ears, your options are limited to living with it or forking it. That's just how it works.
> Isn't the usual answer to this, "If you don't like it, fork it?"
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, systemd developer, is asking for tmux to change to incorporate some systemd-specific Desktop Bus code. Nicholas Marriott, tmux developer, replies that this should go in the GNU libc daemon() function for everyone whose programs do this to benefit, repeating what he said 5 years ago.
Following your model, which should Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek be forking? tmux? Or GNU libc?
I was just thinking this. It seems to be tempting fate and encouraging a "$2B company" to make changes that suit their objectives.
It does seem like what is being requested is not a sensible change, but arguing with insults and getting so personal seems like poking a rather large bear with a very short stick because it is trying to make you move away from it even though you were there first. You can do that, but it's unlikely you will enjoy the outcome.
Isn't the usual answer to this, "If you don't like it, fork it?"
If you work on a large FOSS project, you will spend a lot of your time reacting to decisions made by other people. You won't agree with all of them. Some of those decisions will be made by $2B companies, some of them will be made by influential individuals like Linus and Lennart. Still others were made 20 years ago by some anonymous person in their basement.
Either way, if your complaints fall on deaf ears, your options are limited to living with it or forking it. That's just how it works.