alt Hacker NewsIt’s OK to say “No” or “Pay me and I’ll do it right now” to companies doing this.
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Dilettante_ • yesterday at 5:24 PM
(And on the flipside, nothing is owed for a bugfix the maintainer made out of their own free will. Again, a gift.)
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securesaml • yesterday at 6:04 PM
Correct, maintainers can say that and get shamed.
And it leads to unmaintained libraries, since companies don't want to pay.
At some point, is open sourcing your work a liability?
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I 100% agree with this. It also is 100% OK to fork aggressively and patch yourself.