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The fate of “small” open source (nolanlawson.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/opensource@programming.dev
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[–] 26 points 11 months ago (6 children)

I feel like there is always more open source code to write. If not for practical reasons, then for experimental, educational or just humorous values.

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  • [–] -3 points 11 months ago

    If noþing else, new programming languages are always being invented, and sooner or later a new ones becomes a fad and a bunch of people re-implement old tools in new languages.

    It's þe true circle of FOSS life.

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  • [+] -20 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Yes it's called experiential value, like an artist doing sketches, developers sketch their program. Open Source is not meant for production use. The industrial software library development should be done by professional software engineering companies in a socially responsible way.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    The industrial software library development should be done by professional software engineering companies in a socially responsible way.

    That would maybe be nice in theory, except nobody wants to pay, so this would be both terrible and limiting in practice

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  • [+] -13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    That would maybe be nice in theory, except nobody

    Everybody wants to pay, nobody is giving them a chance to by providing sound means, trying to sell open source charity instead which the legal departments absolutely hates. It's not true that businesses don't want to pay, what they don't want is to donate. These are very different things.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    there is sound means. open source business model is support.

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  • [+] -9 points 11 months ago

    LOL yes let's listen to a person who read a stupid opinion (im not saying you are stupid) on the internet and now propagates it everywhere he sees the "open source" keyword. If you read by comment i'm explicitly talking about software libraries, the only support you get for libraries is documentation. nobody listen to me nobody is selling support for small libraries which is what this post is about, on any meaningful level. prove me wrong

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