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Re:Let’s talk about open-source sustainability by baroffoos on Thursday January 17, 2019 @09:38PM (#18936614)
Your farm has to be complex enough to need help using it. You either have to make an absolutely massive farm or intentionally make it hard to use/maintain.
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Re:Let’s talk about open-source sustainability by nerdponx on Thursday January 17, 2019 @10:12PM (#18936745)
You would think that at least one big company finds it in their interest to make sure the product is bug-free, at least enough to compensate core FOSS devs for their time.
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Re:Let’s talk about open-source sustainability by l0b0 on Thursday January 17, 2019 @11:24PM (#18937021)
It's a problem similar to the tragedy of the commons - why should I pay for something when company X, my competitor to boot, would not only benefit but clearly has more money/uses the software more/whatever other reason I feel justifies washing my hands of it.
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Re:Let’s talk about open-source sustainability by paulryanrogers on Friday January 18, 2019 @10:16AM (#18939828)
The history of Openssl bugs before Heartbleed is at least one counter example.
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