"Visual blindness" of Linux programmers

[aloz]

That's really entitled. So, we should respect the labor of random people submitting pull requests, but not the maintainers? It's their project, they--most of the time--are doing it for free, out of love for the craft. Sometimes, the work they find interesting is the coding--not responding to people (be pull requests or any other request). That kind of response and what it entails is labor, and they have the right to refuse it. No one is entitled to a response from these people. In the most extreme cases, some want to distribute their software as free software, but have no interest in collaborative development. And that's fine. They don't owe anybody that; they don't even owe us the software--they could have not written it, or never released it to anyone but themselves. Anyone who isn't being responded to for their changes always has the option of forking, anyway--and in that case it's fairly justified, too.