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> "People have posted nasty stuff because I didn't provide them phone support at 3am for a GPL open source utility that I released." I've found a way to mitiga
by Crito 12y ago
> "People have posted nasty stuff because I didn't provide them phone support at 3am for a GPL open source utility that I released."
I've found a way to mitigate this is to never release pre-built binaries. Just distribute a makefile and source. The kind of people who are not deterred by that will be less likely to expect that level of support from the developers.
This certainly limits your audience, but if the program is just something you made as a hobby and are releasing because "why not?", then I'd rather have a small low maintenance audience.
- bdcravens 12y agoPlus you'll in theory be more secure, depending on the type of dependency management in place. I think the same should be true even of interpreted language projects. Just ship it with a bower.json, etc. (For those who worry that future versions might break their project, that's an issue with your project, and you'd have the aforementioned support nightmare.)
- ecnahc515 12y agoIn his case, it was with sqlite, which he would have encountered this problem in any case.