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People need to eat and pay rent. New developers are doing everything on web/cloud and see no reason to invest time in open source on “legacy” on-prem systems, d
by orev 6y ago
People need to eat and pay rent. New developers are doing everything on web/cloud and see no reason to invest time in open source on “legacy” on-prem systems, despite the fact that those are what underlie all of those higher level tiers. Since new developers are not stepping in, the older guys who started the projects just want to get away from the relentlessly thankless activity of giving stuff away for free, or maybe retire.
- 2Gkashmiri 6y agomy question stands. if you are a corporation, why are you offering an open source in the first place? i am not talking about a library developer who built it for fun but because its MIT, every faang is using it extensively and the original dev is not getting any remuneration while faang is earning big bucks. that is not the issue here. specifically if travis had the idea to pull a bait and switch always to the community, isnt that bad? why offer "free for open source" in the first place when you know it will cost them money and developers need to earn? no open source community is begging for handouts.
- AdrianB1 6y agoAs a corporation you open source at least pieces needed for interoperability, that is a valid reason. Otherwise you can get into the pains of SMB/Samba or drivers for paid databases for more programming languages one is able to support. For example Microsoft is working on the PHP driver for SQL server, this helps them by opening the door to PHP developers to use MS SQL and eventually pay for Standard or Enterprise editions instead of using the free Express one. It is kind of a freemium game.