alt Hacker News> once we start talking about the kind of software large corporations (like AWS) will have an interest in
I'm not sure why someone who is spending their limited free time building software to give away for free would want Amazon as a downstream consumer
Do you enjoy spending your nights and weekends dealing with CVE reports, while a high-6-figure BigTech engineer nags you that they need it fixed?
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> I'm not sure why someone who is spending their limited free time building software to give away for free would want Amazon as a downstream consumer
Are you kidding? This is the dream scenario for many open source projects: Getting adopted by a major company is a claim to fame like none other.
> Do you enjoy spending your nights and weekends dealing with CVE reports, while a high-6-figure BigTech engineer nags you that they need it fixed?
Then don’t? You don’t have to do anything. It’s fine to ignore it you want.
Practically speaking, Amazon engineers aren’t going to sit around and hope the maintainer fixes the thing that unblocks them. If they actually need it, they’ll fix it. They might fork it. They might try to recruit the person.
But nothing obligates you to do anything. This hand-wringing about the idea that someone might find the project useful enough to identify issues and report them is rather ridiculous. Just ignore it if that’s prerogative.
We definitely agree on this point. Different licenses select for different things.
It is an annoying problem to have, but if your goal is to be able to support yourself by working on your open source project full time (not saying this has to be or should be everyone’s goal), then having big tech engineers nagging you is probably a good problem to have.