Entitled Open-Source Users!
Yesterday, I touched on Moq…
It had included a ‘SponsorLink’, causing a bit of a stir with email fiddling. ๐ง
Its purpose? Simple… to check if you’ve sponsored Moq. If not, consider a warning message in your build. ๐จ
Now, don’t get me wrong – asking for sponsorship isn’t bad, but this may not be the route I would take. Regardless, kudos to the developer, kzu, for trying something new. ๐ฏ
Fear not, it’s already removed in patch v4.20.2. ๐
Then, I shifted through the comments…
Wow, what a wave of entitlement! Some folks, full of complaints, claiming lost trust and demanding fixes… all directed at kzu, whoโs put his spare time and family sacrifices into this free-to-use library! ๐ฅ๏ธ
The sad part? None of the folks sponsored Moq. None ask their company for some sponsership. Instead, a surplus of demands. ๐
12 years and not a SINGLE sponsorship or donation for Moq? ๐ None, except from Amazon (AWS) once! Far too many enterprise companies, Microsoft included, utilize Moq without contributing.
Something is wrong… and it needs to be fixed in the dotnet open-source landscape. ๐ฅ
