My Startup Failed, So We Open-Sourced the Tech

Re:My Startup Failed, So We Open-Sourced the Tech by dpcan on Saturday February 22, 2020 @07:56PM (#22394392)

So, not only did it not make enough money for the business to run, you decided to support it for forever for free as open source?

I suppose you can just ignore every issue and problem and security vulnerability that comes up in the future, or hope that contributors decide to fix things for you. Or spend countless hours of your own valuable time updating the system for some kind of mental satisfaction?

I love open source, I use open source, I like that this is open source, but I can't understand why people actually open source things.

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Re:My Startup Failed, So We Open-Sourced the Tech by atymic on Saturday February 22, 2020 @08:09PM (#22394444)

Open sourcing your code in no way means you have to maintain it. Anyone can fork the repo & add their own features/fix issues. If you want them to make changes, they seem to have their development services on offer.

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Re:My Startup Failed, So We Open-Sourced the Tech by vxNsr on Saturday February 22, 2020 @08:09PM (#22394443)

If you read the page you’ll they actually do offer a support package for enterprise.

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Re:My Startup Failed, So We Open-Sourced the Tech by microcolonel on Saturday February 22, 2020 @08:05PM (#22394432)

Who said they'd support it?

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