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I am completely with you on this. It feels like it’s just tricky semantics. The point of supply chain management is to manage the inputs to production. Analysi
by doctor_eval 4y ago
I am completely with you on this. It feels like it’s just tricky semantics.
The point of supply chain management is to manage the inputs to production. Analysing this process using tools from other industries is, at least, a defensible approach. It doesn’t, in itself, imply any obligation on the suppliers. It’s just a way of thinking about the world.
If you write code and make the conscious decision to assign a liberal license and build it and test it and update it and make it available, it’s really hard for me to accept that you are not a supplier of that code. Your license specifically excludes any obligation to users of your software. But the whole essay just felt like semantic tricks to protest against the idea that software can be modelled as if it is some kind of industrial process.
- xena 4y agoIf you want me to treat my hobby projects seriously, where is the money to pay for the time for me to treat them seriously?
- doctor_eval 4y agoSupply chain management is not about telling you what to do, it’s about properly understanding the things one depends on to build one’s product. Like I said, your (presumed) license specifically excludes any obligation to users of your software. I’ve written free software and proprietary software, and one thing I’ve learned is that the world is full of entitled jerks. Entitlement has zero meaningful intersection with software supply chain management.