OSS Assholes

This officially pisses me off now: for the second time now I’ve donated effort to an open source project and not been credited for it. First, it was GAIM, but I could somehow excuse the sophmoric behavior of a couple of college students prefering to quote random song lyrics instead of credit me in theri ChangeLog (I’ve since left the project because of the lack of goal-setting, coding standards, and myriad other moronic things that were happening). Now, with SNIPS, I’m even more offended: I reported a bug and submitted a patch to fix it, yet I get no credit in the release notes (though others did for simply reporting bugs). And SNIPS is written by a guy who works in a corporate environment, a professional. Where I work, implicitly taking credit for other people’s work will get you canned. Furthermore, it makes me wonder if Open Source itself can survive if the people running projects fail to understand that they must “pay” their contributors with the one thing they desire: credit.