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  • thesmokingman@programming.dev
    3·
    4 months ago

    Neither wins here. I cannot tell you how many libraries I have had to replace because FOSS devs move on. It’s probably greater than the number of products I’ve had to abandon for lack of support but I’m not sure what that is at a percentage level. In the DevOps world everything burns constantly, paid and free.

    • howrar@lemmy.ca
      2·
      4 months ago

      It wins in the sense that you still have access to the software and code, and you have the option to either hire someone new to maintaining it or switch to something else. Closed source proprietary software only leaves you with the latter choice.