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Re:The Realities of Being a FOSS Maintainer by carussell on Saturday September 16, 2017 @02:57AM (#15263325)
> Anyway: compare https://caddyserver.com/ to http://nginx.org/

You should probably be comparing to nginx.com.

Re:The Realities of Being a FOSS Maintainer by ploxiln on Saturday September 16, 2017 @03:43AM (#15263455)
I never visit nginx.com, it might scare me away ... yup, it's total bullshit.

I'll concede that Nginx does way more of whatever Caddy did that apparently made people upset.

But notice that nginx.org does nothing to attract people looking for a product, while nginx.com is an enterprise product, not a user product.

I just take issue with quotes like

> I do find it ironic that the open source community is so irate about having to compile software from source to customize it the way they want.

while the author does not realize how hard he was working to attract people who are not really the open source community.