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> However, we were totally open source so no licensing costs. This is not a healthy opinion to have, not for the open source community and neither for the comp
by harpratap 5y ago
> However, we were totally open source so no licensing costs.
This is not a healthy opinion to have, not for the open source community and neither for the company using open source projects. All the bugs and missing features of the open source project you use are also a part of your technical debt now, you can either donate to project to keep it healthy or hire FTE working on contributing to these projects, which is just indirect form of payment and should absolutely be a part of your budget
- fooblat 5y agoYou seem to be jumping to a lot of conclusions simply because we chose freely available open source. To have a business depend on software you either need a support service or you support it yourself. We chose the latter and made sure the team had the skills to do so. Of course we contributed our bug fixes back and even released our own tools open source.
- harpratap 5y agoGood but those two things aren't nearly enough. Then people wonder how we end up with HeartBleed bug, Elastic & Grafana moving to stricter licenses, Mozilla dying in favor of FAANG provided software.