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What is the guarantee that FOSS electronic equipment will survive any longer? Just because someone could support it doesn’t mean someone will, right?
by intopieces 7y ago
What is the guarantee that FOSS electronic equipment will survive any longer? Just because someone could support it doesn’t mean someone will, right?
- dasil003 7y agoAs with all of life there is no guarantee. The difference is that with FOSS anyone in the world with the skills and the disposition can help maintain a thing. With closed systems you are always at the mercy of a single bean counter somewhere.
- namewasmypw 7y agoYes it does, because that person is you. You can carry on and maintain your own code in a way that isn't possible with proprietary code.
- tomc1985 7y agoAnd why do these things need support? If you build them with open standards and protocols they will continue to work until they break, no support required