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Not sure if sarcastic or serious. It seems to me that a major problem for Open Source in 2016 is assumption of support from the originating entity or person.
by nixgeek 10y ago
Not sure if sarcastic or serious.
It seems to me that a major problem for Open Source in 2016 is assumption of support from the originating entity or person.
Does this base assumption not risk alienating individuals and organisations into saying, "Should I release this at all?".
Why should they hire people to support something which generates, as far as I can see, no revenue for Google?
- deckar01 10y ago> Why should they hire people to support something which generates, as far as I can see, no revenue for Google? The reason most companies release projects open source for free is that they created them to solve a problem for themselves, but want to benefit from community contributions. Google's ease of abandon suggests they are not really using this library internally.
- rhizome 10y agoWhy should they hire people to support something which generates, as far as I can see, no revenue for Google? Because it helps people use Material design. I feel this interpretation is supported by the concept of brand advertising, such as Coca Cola commercials not really having a direct effect on sales.
- franciscop 10y agoEnglish is not my native language so I apologize for the misunderstanding, I didn't mean any sarcasm here. There is a big difference between releasing software "as-is", and saying - or making it look like - it will be supported for a long time: > "it was previously stated that Angular 1 will be supported for a long time to come" - Zach Bjornson Arguably, one of the main goals of Open Source is to be used. If companies that set expectations of support don't support it, then I think the future of Open Source is really doomed.