Why should somebody be forced to maintain something that is broken for them?If something works for me, why should I be forced to fix it something that wasn't broke?
The FreeBSD team thinks YOU should copy all the source code to your machine to ensure the software you care about continues working.the FreeBSD team should instead copy all the source code on FreeBSD servers to ensure that the source code remains available so that ports continue working without disruption
You don't have any power in the situation, so I can understand how a bunch of people telling you what do can be frustrating, but they're doing the work and we're just reaping the benefits. Seems only fair. If you think you can just pick up your ball and go somewhere else, well, wherever you go, those people are going to have to do work too. Sometimes nobody wants to do the work because it just isn't worth it.