"I’m puzzled by people who write to me saying, “If I were to write a patch for your library X to make it do Y, would you accept it?” First of all, you don’t need my or anybody else’s permission to modify my code. That’s the whole point of open-source! Secondly, how can I decide whether or not I’ll accept a patch I haven’t seen yet? Finally, if you do decide to send me a pull request, please don’t be offended if I don’t accept it, or if I ignore it for six months and then take the idea and rewrite it myself."
"I’m puzzled by people who write to me saying, “If I were to write a patch for your library X to make it do Y, would you accept it?” First of all, you don’t need my or anybody else’s permission to modify my code. That’s the whole point of open-source! Secondly, how can I decide whether or not I’ll accept a patch I haven’t seen yet? Finally, if you do decide to send me a pull request, please don’t be offended if I don’t accept it, or if I ignore it for six months and then take the idea and rewrite it myself."