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FOSS has risks too.

• type0 4y ago
  Yes, it can even cause you to drop out of college https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32799090 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32799090
  • Existenceblinks 4y ago
    Yeah I feel sick every time people pride FOSS/OSS only from consumers' perspective. While there's just a few way to financially sustain projects.
    • Existenceblinks 4y ago
      Congratulation downvoters you've successfully used free software on the back of people for a long time and don't want changes.
  • jbaczuk 4y ago
    lol
• marcodiego 4y ago
  Specially the risk of becoming a much better alternative.
  • jbaczuk 4y ago
    until users get too dependent on it and the maintainers stop maintaining it... or the maintainer goes rogue... or there is a vulnerability/bug introduced by someone... and you can't easily switch to another platform
• NayamAmarshe 4y ago
  Yeah, risk for the proprietary competition.