A simple nod of acknowledgment.

Most OS projects are (still) created and maintained by individuals & small groups of volunteers, not by Big Tech™️. Project owners are usually _thrilled & excited_ to learn how people are using their libraries (I know I am!), also to learn how/where to improve them. Yet, how is it still so much to ask of people to even just publicly mention/acknowledge that an OS project/library was instrumental to their own creations? Even if (some) licenses don't explicitly require this, so many users of OS code don't ever seem to see the social & energy side of these shared goods. Sometimes not for years.

Opensource != Consumerism

Without even these minute, literally zero-cost feedback cycles (really just talking about gestures here!) it can be a very unthankful, sometimes plain frustrating, not to mention unfair and unsustainable, experience for creators of said tools.

Opensource == Mutual Aid

IMHO lacking any other form of support given, the minimum social imperative for users is to at least somehow give a little nod/credit to those projects and (indirectly) to the people behind them, those who're spending their own time, experience & energy to help you (and others) along to achieve your own goals!

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🇬🇧 2022 and New Year Wishes for 2023

https://dariusz.wieckiewicz.org/en/2022-and-new-year-wishes-for-2023/

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