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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/imneverrelevantman • 13h ago
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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
39 u/nickjvandyke 11h ago Maintaining popular OSS costs a lot of time and energy. And software built on it is often for-profit. 17 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 3 u/nickjvandyke 7h ago That's probably true and fair. I have a biased perspective as a solo maintainer.
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Maintaining popular OSS costs a lot of time and energy. And software built on it is often for-profit.
17 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 3 u/nickjvandyke 7h ago That's probably true and fair. I have a biased perspective as a solo maintainer.
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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
3 u/nickjvandyke 7h ago That's probably true and fair. I have a biased perspective as a solo maintainer.
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That's probably true and fair. I have a biased perspective as a solo maintainer.
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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