Re:WiX Toolset: Introduce the Open Source Maintenance Fee
by samrus on Thursday July 24, 2025 @05:18PM
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> As an open source project no one is forcing you to maintain it.
Sure but thats not the spirit that built the modern software world. Our globabl information infrastructure heavily heavily relies on OSS and that has open source devs assuming some responsibilities. If not from others then just their own sense of self respect and engineering pride.
The only issue was that companies were exploiting that and demanding the exact labour that benefits them. Which is bullshit. And this might solve that
Sure but thats not the spirit that built the modern software world. Our globabl information infrastructure heavily heavily relies on OSS and that has open source devs assuming some responsibilities. If not from others then just their own sense of self respect and engineering pride.
The only issue was that companies were exploiting that and demanding the exact labour that benefits them. Which is bullshit. And this might solve that