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Re:WiX Toolset: Introduce the Open Source Maintenance Fee by robmensching on Thursday July 24, 2025 @08:21PM (#44677981)
My experience is that FOSS is being destroyed by entitled consumers.

Note: I'm not saying you're an entitled consumer, but I interviewed many maintainers of successful Open Source projects. The number one issue for all of them was entitled consumers.

Re:WiX Toolset: Introduce the Open Source Maintenance Fee by jackdawipper on Friday July 25, 2025 @06:33PM (#44689289)
Yea that is actually more a symptom of post-war generations, so isnt exclusive to OSS. Ask any employer how its going with their new young staff members.

but what I see causing far more problems in the OSS community is greedy patreon gatewallers who poach all they can from the devs, then put it behind a patreon wall and charge money for it. Them and corporate swooping in are a bigger problem than whining on a github issues board.

Re:WiX Toolset: Introduce the Open Source Maintenance Fee by jackdawipper on Monday July 28, 2025 @11:26AM (#44711796)
I take back my previous comment since I can't now edit it. I was wrong. I think the approach makes sense. There is nothing wrong with getting paid by commericial interests. Its the difficult side of FOSS where finding balance between the two worlds is kind of hard to achieve in a perfect way.
Re:WiX Toolset: Introduce the Open Source Maintenance Fee by robmensching on Monday July 28, 2025 @03:18PM (#44714396)
I appreciate that "edit". :)

And, yes, you are very correct that finding balance is very challenging. However, I feel that the OSMF suits the bill quite well, at least for projects of a shape and size that I'm familiar with.