But the software needs to meet users in the middle.
No, it doesn’t. No FOSS volunteer owes the users of their software anything.
“THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”” after all.
Your kind of views is exactly why the burn-out rate among FOSS developers has sky rocketed over the past years.
Wayland and really any free software is powered by volunteers and unless you compensate them in a reasonable way, you have no stakes and zero say in the matter. The fact that they listen to users and a community which largely doesn’t contribute is a gift, not an obligation.
No, it doesn’t. No FOSS volunteer owes the users of their software anything. “THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”” after all. Your kind of views is exactly why the burn-out rate among FOSS developers has sky rocketed over the past years. Wayland and really any free software is powered by volunteers and unless you compensate them in a reasonable way, you have no stakes and zero say in the matter. The fact that they listen to users and a community which largely doesn’t contribute is a gift, not an obligation.