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It's more than fine, it should be the default. The default absolutely should not be a social expectation to support and maintain something just because you made
by samwillis 4y ago
It's more than fine, it should be the default. The default absolutely should not be a social expectation to support and maintain something just because you made it available.
The commitment to run an open source project is huge, it's time consuming and draining.
Just putting the source code of something you built out there and saying "I built this, do what ever you want with it" is an incredibly generous thing to do and should always be encouraged.
- lliamander 4y ago> Just putting the source code of something you built out there and saying "I built this, do what ever you want with it" is an incredibly generous thing to do and should always be encouraged. Indeed, and originally that is what open source was all about! One of my pet peeves is the conflating of open source with some sort of communal development model. Open source certainly enables that model, but open source is much bigger than that. Furthermore, you need other things to make the communal model work well - specifically funding (like a foundation or other patronage funding model) to support development and community management.