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Because John Doe the Maintainer is not offering Support for his third-party library. SpringSource/Pivotal was/is offering that for Spring. Redhat is offering S

Because John Doe the Maintainer is not offering Support for his third-party library. SpringSource/Pivotal was/is offering that for Spring. Redhat is offering Support for hibernate. Enterprise does not care if there is A solution. Enterprise cares if there is a SUPPORTED solution.

nine_k 7y ago
An established library usually has a bunch of maintainers from big companies that are investend in that library. You know, most open-source code by now gets written for money as a day job.
- cabraca 7y ago
  and the enterprise doesn't care as long as they don't offer them a support contract.