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The unacknowledged costs of using free third-party software eventually proves the law of there being no free lunches!
by williamcotton 2y ago
The unacknowledged costs of using free third-party software eventually proves the law of there being no free lunches!
- falcor84 2y agoWhat does it have to do with that software being free? I haven't found proprietary software to be more reliable or easier to maintain integration with.
- williamcotton 2y agoHave fun rewriting bits of your code, because the old version of a framework/library is no longer supported and there are breaking changes, which mean needing a partial rewrite. You don't get to choose if a third-party decides to rewrite an API interface, deprecate an entire library, etc. You know that proprietary code has a cost because you pay for it. "Free" software is added to projects without much thought of what happens down the road.