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I understand that it is in the best interests of an open source developer to give support for his software (assuming he wants people to use it), but he's in no

by machine 19y ago

I understand that it is in the best interests of an open source developer to give support for his software (assuming he wants people to use it), but he's in no way obligated to do so. Some people just develop software for fun and make it available to the public as an afterthought in the hopes like minded people will find it useful. I know with the personal projects I've released as open source, although I fixed bugs and responded to requests when I could, it was my goal to give prompt technical support.

omouse 19y ago
Some people just develop software for fun and make it available to the public as an afterthought in the hopes like minded people will find it useful. That's true. But this is a programming language we're talking about. The goal is to create a good implementation and part of that is having good support. Does a programming language exist if no one uses it?