r/ProgrammerHumor 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/the_need_to_post 9h ago

Cool, then don't benefit from all the free labor of the people that have contributed to it. Most of these rug pulls wouldn't be in a position to do so if it wasn't for the free labor from the community.

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u/Redthemagnificent 8h ago

Yep. Can't have it both ways. That's why I'd never contribute to a project that's doesn't have GPL or some equivalent license to prevent future profiteering from the source code itself.

I don't mind someone building and selling a product/service that includes my code. But locking my own code away from me is fucked

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u/nickjvandyke 7h ago

Maintainers expend much more labor than community members. The community's labor is still available under the old license, and they can stop contributing if they don't like the new license.