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One feature is: it's a business and won't be abandoned due to OSS but out if it has a sustainable way to continue.
by philipallstar 9mo ago
One feature is: it's a business and won't be abandoned due to OSS but out if it has a sustainable way to continue.
- ZoomZoomZoom 9mo agoHealthy and not extremely niche Free Software projects don't disappear. My software stack I rely on daily mostly barely changed in 15 and more years. The amount of businesses closed, sold and products abandoned or swapped for the more controlled/exploitable ones is numerous, on the other hand.
- 1shooner 9mo ago>Healthy and not extremely niche Free Software projects don't disappear. This sounds a lot like a circular definition.
- ZoomZoomZoom 9mo agoNot really? One is the cause (bad management/tech debt/problematic architecture/no public interest, etc.), the second is the effect.
- philipallstar 8mo agoIt looks as though your definition of healthy is "survived"; i.e. projects that survived have survived.
- johntash 9mo agoThe (almost) opposite is also a feature: it's OSS and will still be available if the business goes out of business
- pmarreck 8mo agoCompanies need someone to blame who has skin in the game. An "open source contributor" is not gonna wake up at 2AM on a Saturday because the business that someone else partially built on their free code suddenly went down. This is ALSO, conveniently, why AI's will never completely replace human developers. You cannot blame, reward, or punish an entity that has no such sensitivities.