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From my experience in the medium business world (maybe 500 people total?), paying is the only option. Open source is evil. Maintaining things is evil. Writing y
by nulagrithom 9y ago
From my experience in the medium business world (maybe 500 people total?), paying is the only option. Open source is evil. Maintaining things is evil. Writing your own code is evil. Just shell out $x,000 for support.
If I could find a way to say "Yeah, we can get 'support' for this open source library for $xxx per month" my life would be much easier.
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- ghaff 9y agoYou can in many cases.
- jaymzcampbell 9y agoThe Django Rest Framework library has taken this very approach [1] offering both corporate and individual monthly subscriptions which is then used to fund development. It appears to be quite successful in that it's allowed the lead developer to work on the project full time (at a salary of £50k [2]). [1] https://fund.django-rest-framework.org/topics/funding/ https://fund.django-rest-framework.org/topics/funding/ [2] http://www.encode.io/reports/february-2017 http://www.encode.io/reports/february-2017
- singold 9y agoThis. A lot. I work at a company with less than 500 people and for IT open source is evil. I've seen people been told by IT to find another software that does the same thing but paid, and we have a law that mandates us to prefer FLOSS when possible...