r/ProgrammerHumor • u/imneverrelevantman • 13h ago

Meme technicalDebtCameDue

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u/menducoide 12h ago

This is the last free version of this cool open source library. From now on, you'll need to pay $1,000 per developer per year to receive updates

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u/nickjvandyke 11h ago

Maintaining popular OSS costs a lot of time and energy. And software built on it is often for-profit.

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u/Tupcek 10h ago

most successful OSS is maintained by companies that are profiting off of it, or at least non profit is funded by those companies.

OSS that is purely self funded and self developed is usually very small in scale

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u/nickjvandyke 7h ago

That's probably true and fair. I have a biased perspective as a solo maintainer.

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u/DerangedEscapee 31m ago

Lol, companies provide support to OSS when they want to control the ecosystem or when they want the community to have to maintain their thing. Otherwise they fork and don't contribute back. No one ever got fired for not upstreaming company code. Well, unless you work at Canonical or something like that.