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Re:Penpot: Open-source design and prototyping platform by jbaczuk on Thursday September 15, 2022 @09:35AM (#32851708)
FOSS has risks too.
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Re:Penpot: Open-source design and prototyping platform by type0 on Thursday September 15, 2022 @09:46AM (#32851873)
Yes, it can even cause you to drop out of college https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32799090
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Re:Penpot: Open-source design and prototyping platform by jbaczuk on Friday September 16, 2022 @07:46PM (#32873470)
lol
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Re:Penpot: Open-source design and prototyping platform by Existenceblinks on Thursday September 15, 2022 @09:53AM (#32851988)
Yeah I feel sick every time people pride FOSS/OSS only from consumers' perspective. While there's just a few way to financially sustain projects.
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Re:Penpot: Open-source design and prototyping platform by Existenceblinks on Thursday September 15, 2022 @08:49PM (#32860557)
Congratulation downvoters you've successfully used free software on the back of people for a long time and don't want changes.
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Re:Penpot: Open-source design and prototyping platform by marcodiego on Thursday September 15, 2022 @09:59AM (#32852072)
Specially the risk of becoming a much better alternative.
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Re:Penpot: Open-source design and prototyping platform by jbaczuk on Friday September 16, 2022 @07:46PM (#32873467)
until users get too dependent on it and the maintainers stop maintaining it... or the maintainer goes rogue... or there is a vulnerability/bug introduced by someone... and you can't easily switch to another platform
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Re:Penpot: Open-source design and prototyping platform by NayamAmarshe on Thursday September 15, 2022 @11:39AM (#32853703)
Yeah, risk for the proprietary competition.
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