I'll let you in on a little secret.
My favorite part of working on free, open-source software is the knowledge that for every issue and pull-request I receive from total strangers, there is a chance, however tiny, that telling one of them "No", along with my reasoning, will cause that stranger to transform into my sworn enemy, compelling them to publicly smear my project and my person at every opportunity. I love this.
I twirl my waxed mustache. I cackle with malicious glee. I give the closest puppy a strong kick with my hobnailed boot. I savor this moment, ravenously extracting the energy that fuels me to spend thousands of hours of my finite lifespan teaching electrified rocks to perform arithmetic. This is truly what it's all about.
The GitHub comment submission button radiates silent danger like a hemisphere of plutonium teetering on the edge of my screwdriver. My eyelid twitches involuntarily.
