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Wrong on all counts here. The author (and most FOSS maintainers), as they explicitly called out in their article, are making the software for themselves, and m
by ddevault 6y ago
Wrong on all counts here.
The author (and most FOSS maintainers), as they explicitly called out in their article, are making the software for themselves, and making it open source because it's the nice thing to do. It follows that any bug that doesn't personally affect them is not something they need to care about.
There's no greater good of "caring about fixing bugs" here. To quote the MIT license: the software is provided “as is”, without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and noninfringement.
You were warned.
- pseudalopex 6y agoI don't think maintainer is the right word for someone who isn't interested in maintenance. The long tail of FOSS projects might be things people wrote just for themselves. The most used projects aren't. Most of the projects most people use aren't. Almost all software has a warranty disclaimer. It would be irrational to assume it means the software is unsupported.