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    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.

    • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zip
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      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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      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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        Open Source is not meant for production use.

        The Microsoft Azure backend runs on Linux servers.
        Your phone, router and all your networking hardware run on Linux or BSD.
        Can you guess what’s the back-end of VMWare? Veeam? FortiGate?

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        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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          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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              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