Commenters debate whether developers have duty of care
2 Sep 27 11:15 AM · 1d ago · 3 comments · 1 source · development 2 of 4
Discussion centers on whether open-source developers have an obligation to preserve user data. Some argue that any software deleting user files represents a failure of care; others contend that open-source maintainers have no enforceable duty and users should choose tools that match their values.
“They are open source developers, giving away free software as a gift. There is no duty here.”
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Marcin Wichary UX designer and vim userNeoVim developers Open-source maintainersJef Raskin Computing pioneer and author
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They are open source developers, giving away free software as a gift. There is no duty here.We can speak, respectfully, of how important backwards compatibility is to us, and ask nicely for them to give more of their time to support it when their free sodftware isn't backwards compatible. Perhaps we can even offer to help implement it.But they…
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I was also a very early user of Neovim.The way I personally remember it being positioned was “Vim, but with breaking changes.”
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>I deleted something from this file, maybe last weekDon't forget time travel: `:earlier 7d`
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