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Can we please remember that KDE contributors and maintainers don't owe **anything** to their users? And that they are free to decide to take the project in any direction they like, whether or not we agree with it? [1]

And can we also remember that the project is run by humans? You know, those humans that we don't want #AI to replace? That humans can make mistakes, especially when under duress? And that hurling insults at exhausted maintainers and volunteers is **not** the way to convince them of your superior moral stance?

There has to be a better way. I share the anxiety of watching way too many brilliant minds and projects subjugate themselves to the machine. But I am also convinced that insulting well-meaning people will not change their minds. Short of becoming contributors and maintainers ourselves, we will only affect change if we stay respectful of the people running the project.

[1] https://gist.github.com/richhickey/1563cddea1002958f96e7ba9519972d9

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