>There is no ‘promise that users will support the maintainer’ and never has been. Certainly not officially... >Open source was originally about developers sha

>There is no ‘promise that users will support the maintainer’ and never has been. Certainly not officially... >Open source was originally about developers sharing code with each other and jointly contributing to it, to make their lives easier. Look at all the original GNU projects, they’re almost entirely developer tools, shared infrastructure and games. The core right of open source is for users to modify the code, because in the GOL no distinction is made between users and developers, they are the same. I would argue that _is_ the promise of supporting the maintainer ;)