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Comment by keithwarren | Hacker News Reader

I like Massive and have used it on several large projects, mostly moved to Dapper on stuff since. That said, this is borderline condescending. The guy was wrong about his assumptions and understanding of a moderately complex topic that 90% of .NET developers probably don't fully understand.

This complaint really has nothing to do with open source and is more about the frustration of interacting with other developers who believe they are right about something for which they are in part ignorant. That is going to happen pretty often.

I really hope this is just anger talking and not Rob being serious, he is wickedly good and I learn quite a bit from reading his code. Hoping to see more in the future.

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Background: I was a .NET developer for quite a while myself. There are a lot of good things about the .NET world; I'm not saying any of this to trash that technology or that community.

  > This complaint really has nothing to do with open source

Sure it does. It's about a group of people (.NET developers) who tend to be much newer to the open source world and therefore tend to be less familiar with the culture/etiquette expected from users of such projects.

So .NET developers stumble at times when they get involved with open source projects. Sometimes badly. (Sometimes they really shine, too.)

.NET or not, personally I don't see whats wrong with mwpowellhtx's question here. He made some wrong assumption, sure, but its not like he demanded stuff as if the project author owed him something. A bit of an overreaction, honestly.

But then again, that is just what I get from this short "discussion", and I don't know what are the stuffs that the author has put up with maintaining the project till now. I can easily imagine demanding emails from people taking open source projects for granted.

Yeah, I don't see the problem. He asked a couple simple questions about architecture decisions and thanked Rob for answering.

Bug reports are for bugs. That's the problem with the behavior. As Conrey mentions there are other ordinary channels for communicating with him...e.g. email and obviously Twitter.

Maybe I'm dumb, but with no mailing list or anything I would have likely gone to the same place. It's a page dedicated to the project where you can make comments. The goal is not "communication with Rob", the goal is "communication about Massive".

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