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> First of all, it's been sustainable for a long time -- what changed? Big failures like OpenSSL fiasco happened - where sure, company was sustainable but due
by xani_ 4y ago
> First of all, it's been sustainable for a long time -- what changed?
Big failures like OpenSSL fiasco happened - where sure, company was sustainable but due to skewed priorities coz of funding (companies that founded it founded features that from perspective of any other company were bloat, and not enough work went into modernizing the code) the code was shit and full of traps.
And it's still a fact that vast majority of developers of stuff used everywhere wouldn't be able to do it as full or even part time job for financial reasons.
All while the corporate is pushing same "BSD/MIT good, GPL bad" agenda, coz they don't need to contribute anything back to stuff they take
- LtWorf 4y ago> All while the corporate is pushing same "BSD/MIT good, GPL bad" agenda, coz they don't need to contribute anything back to stuff they take Yeah and people eat it up. "oh it won't have as many users" well who cares? It's less hassle. Not like you get anything back from having 100x more downloads.