Opinions in the public domain

Zach Holman wrote about ownership and had this to say about works that appear in the public domain:

If I’m honest to myself, this is what I fear whenever I create something in the public eye. What if people don’t like it? More unsettlingly, what if I completely missed the mark? What if someone comes in with a rebuttal and writes their own post about how misled I was?

At least in some parts of the internet, this culture is a lot friendlier or constructive than others. There have been a lot of cases where public hatred comes out in what can only be expressed as waves of scorn over products & people alike, to the point where it wouldn’t be entirely false to cite fear as the reason why many good arguments are left unsaid. Instead, one angry blog post gets a thousand responses on Twitter, but not a the call out in a post that it might deserve.

If I had to make a suggestion, I’d say that everyone needs to be a little more accepting in the tech world.

Make criticism, not headlines.