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Re:WiX Toolset: Introduce the Open Source Maintenance Fee by ApolloFortyNine on Thursday July 24, 2025 @03:19PM (#44674900)
They actually provide the github action they use to build the releases in their repo already, so you could likely get this done in under 5 minutes.
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Re:WiX Toolset: Introduce the Open Source Maintenance Fee by zvr on Thursday July 24, 2025 @03:37PM (#44675075)
And that's what a number of organizations have set up since March.
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Re:WiX Toolset: Introduce the Open Source Maintenance Fee by robmensching on Thursday July 24, 2025 @08:20PM (#44677966)
No. Not really. There are 406 forks, and ~10 were created in the last 5 months. The other people on this thread are more correct.
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Re:WiX Toolset: Introduce the Open Source Maintenance Fee by zvr on Sunday July 27, 2025 @05:13PM (#44704738)
The number of publicly visible forks does not represent the number of organizations compiling their own binaries and internally mandating the use of such binaries.

Mind you, I never implied that there are thousands or hundreds of such cases. But there are some.

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Re:WiX Toolset: Introduce the Open Source Maintenance Fee by robmensching on Monday July 28, 2025 @03:14PM (#44714357)
Oh, sure there are some. There were some before. It's Open Source after all. That's kinda' the point. :)

If more consumers choose to take on the work of maintaining their own fork because of the OSMF, that's okay too. I believe we are more likely to get contributions if more developers are in the code instead of just consuming binary builds. That's another small reason why I believe the OSMF can work.

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