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A comment on WiX Toolset: Introduce the Open Source Maintenance Fee. Parent comment

Re:WiX Toolset: Introduce the Open Source Maintenance Fee by ozim on Thursday July 24, 2025 @05:04PM (#44676113)
No one is forcing you to maintain it … but successful projects have community and people who rely on the project who somehow trust the dev.

Once you say „I am not fixing it” there will be lots of people who will stop participating in community and project might die.

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Re:WiX Toolset: Introduce the Open Source Maintenance Fee by ozim on Friday July 25, 2025 @04:23AM (#44680927)
To add: But you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed.
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