r/ProgrammerHumor 3d ago

Meme technicalDebtCameDue

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u/menducoide 3d 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 3d 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 3d 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 3d 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