Re:Sourcegraph Went Dark
by mort96 on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @10:45AM
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Sure but you can publish the source code while only solving your own problems on your own hardware, you're not required to provide support and documentation just to publish source code...
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Re:Sourcegraph Went Dark
by jandrewrogers on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @11:19AM
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There is a significant intrinsic cost to making code "open source", through the simple act of making that source code available at all. This overhead exists without any regard for what you wish or promise. It invites myriad interactions that cost time and money for little or no offsetting benefit.
Publishing source code, if anyone uses it at all, is not "free" in any sense. I know several people that stopped open sourcing their projects (not even businesses) because the cost of making their code available isn't worth it.