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> he'll almost certainly fall victim to the Great Garbage Collection Algorithm In The Sky at some point, and now all of a sudden you're tied to a library that n
by guido_vongraum 7y ago
> he'll almost certainly fall victim to the Great Garbage Collection Algorithm In The Sky at some point, and now all of a sudden you're tied to a library that now literally nobody can legally maintain
Don't worry, you too are literally not going to be tied to such a library forever, you know :)
And I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but no software project, however open sourced and redundantly-maintained it is, is immortal either.
- yellowapple 7y agoIndeed, no software project is immortal, but a software project with a license that lets literally any user pick up where the upstream developer left off and maintain a fork to continue development is significantly less mortal than one without.