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Not paying for software all but guarantees that it will be abandoned at one point. People want to eat, after all. (The dichotomy between "I must earn a gazilli
by dmitriid 4y ago
Not paying for software all but guarantees that it will be abandoned at one point. People want to eat, after all.
(The dichotomy between "I must earn a gazillion dollars because I'm a senior dev" and "I will not pay money (that pays those salaries) for software" that's so prevalent on HN is mind boggling)
- colordrops 4y agoYes Linux and Vim are dead. There are also no other examples of long lived open source projects that are free.
- dmitriid 4y agoLinux is primarily developed by large corporations. And there are significantly more projects that have stagnated and disappeared than those that survived.
- colordrops 4y agoWhether a project is free or not is not the only consideration as to whether I adopt it for my workflow, just a core one.