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But what about companies shutting down, axing the project, mismanaging the project and stonewalling fixes, shutting down the APIs, revoking licenses, or any oth
by 50CNT 10y ago
But what about companies shutting down, axing the project, mismanaging the project and stonewalling fixes, shutting down the APIs, revoking licenses, or any other mishap that can happen to commercial software?
I feel like the risk is significant with commercial software as well, and has a more catastrophic failure mode (e.g. with open source and the right license you can fork and continue work on your own, whereas dead commercial software might be truly dead).
It could be that dead open-source projects are more public. If a company goes down, it takes its servers with it. Dead open source projects stay on sourceforge or as a gzip on some .edu server.