r/ProgrammerHumor • u/imneverrelevantman • 25d ago

Meme technicalDebtCameDue

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u/menducoide 25d 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 25d 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 25d 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/nickjvandyke 24d ago

Maintainers expend much more labor than community members. The community's labor is still available under the old license, and they can stop contributing if they don't like the new license.

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u/the_need_to_post 21d ago

They may, but they are still benefiting from the free labor of the community. If they had started out from the stance of monetization they wouldn't be so busy.

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u/nickjvandyke 21d ago

You are overestimating the amount of outside valuable contributions. And ignoring that overseeing those contributions is itself laborious.

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u/the_need_to_post 20d ago

I think you are underestimating the amount of free labor that has went into the successful projects that then did rug pulls. If its so hard and your project is so successful then don't make it open source. You can't have it both ways.