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Re:Why Open Source? by ignoramous on Monday August 21, 2023 @06:05PM (#37215973)
> Speaking personally, Datasette is the first project I've worked on in my entire career where I'm confident that I would be delighted if I was still working on it in 10-15 years time.

That's a bus factor of 1?

You know what's more cool though? A 100 years: https://archive.is/qnWWX (didn't work out all that well for Evernote, regardless). I'm sorry but this script has been sequel'd over again and again. May be, just may be, you're a unicorn (:

Re:Why Open Source? by simonw on Monday August 21, 2023 @09:27PM (#37217481)
Part of the reason I want to make the project financially sustainable (aka earn enough to hire a team) is to increase that bus factor.