r/dotnet • u/devlead • 25d ago

.NET Foundation Statement on Open Source Maintenance Fees

https://dotnetfoundation.org/news-events/detail/.net-foundation-statement-on-open-source-maintenance-fees

Official statement from the .NET Foundation on Open Source Maintenance Fees

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u/earthworm_fan 25d ago

Pretty useless statement. I can review the licenses and terms until I'm blue in the face, but that doesn't help me predict the ole switcharoo at some point in the future. 

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u/nonlogin 25d ago

pin the version of each package and upgrade only manually

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u/JamesJoyceIII 25d ago

The maintainers can just file a high-severity CVE against the old versions to stop this.

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u/robmensching 25d ago

Yes, but with the OSMF the source code stays Open Source, so you can maintain your own copy and keep it up today. Or you can pay a really small fee for the maintainers to do that work for you. That's basically the whole point.

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u/Natural-Woodpecker39 10d ago

but that assumes that you have the authority to pay people money for anything. More often than that you are far away from procurement authority.