Comment 4 for bug 1779764

"Is it alright to compromise or even deliberately ignore the happiness of the maintainers so that we can enjoy free and open source software?"

(Slide 8 from: https://www.slideshare.net/NadiaEghbal/consider-the-maintainer)

I feel sad that you completely ignore the key issue: Long term funding of development of free software.

You do not come up with an alternative way to making a living.

Instead it seems you somehow expect that doing an amount of work (forking and renaming all references), that goes against the wishes of the author, will make it likely that you will get more free software developed.

You bring up issues that I regard as red herrings instead of using your energy to tackle the hard problem of funding:

* As long as we have not found the perfect way of earning a living from free software, we should try out as many methods as possible. Some will try one method, and others will try another. Saying it is not scalable is like saying that it is not scalable to pay for software. If you pay my salary I will be happy to remove the notice.

* The notice does not deny users the ability to _use_ the software as they wish, for whatever purpose they wish, without payment. It does, however, make it clear what the wishes of the author are.

* The citation notice as you can see is carefully worded so that it is not a legal requirement.

* GNU Parallel has been cited multiple times in Nature and a plethora of other scientific journals. I have yet to see a manuscript rejected due to a citation of something that was good enough to use for the research. If you have a manuscript rejected due to GNU Parallel's citation, I would be very interested in seeing the rejection.

* I have the feeling that since you do not mention the specific scripting tools by name, that you have not actually experienced any incompatibilities with GNU Parallel that were gone when using `--will-cite`. Prove me wrong by posting an MCVE.

* Funding free software seems to go well along with the two primary goals of Ubuntu's mission: "To bring free software to the widest audience" "To accelerate innovation and underpin operations" If there is no software being developed those point are only of theoretical use.

Which brings us back to the real issue at hand: Long term funding of development of free software.

Solve that, and you can have GNU Parallel development without the citation notice.