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How you know your Free or Open Source Software Project is doomed to FAIL (2009)
- jqpabc123 3y agoThe biggest fail indicator --- is if the project lacks any clear, sustainable financial support. Building good, supported, reliable software of any significance takes both time and money. As with most things, there are examples to the contrary but these are exceptions more so than the rule. Some apparent exceptions are just failures delayed/in progress.
- JohnFen 3y agoWhat is the author's definition of "failing" here?
- rwmj 3y agoBeing difficult to package in a Linux distro. The author is Tom Callaway who had the dismal task of packaging Chromium for Fedora for several years.
- JohnFen 3y agoThanks. That's a niche enough concern that it should be highlighted as a qualifier. I suppose that's what the rest of the cut off title "...(or at least, held back fro" was originally intended to do.