The open source community spent 25 years trying to argue that open source could be as professionally maintained and depended on as proprietary software, and now these jackasses are pissing away all the goodwill that's been built up.
It's going to open up a business opportunity. We'd probably throw a thousand or so a year for a unified, curated and audited repository for open source libraries. Python, javascript, R and maybe a few others.
Otherwise we're going to have to do it ourselves and live with not being on the latest and greatest.
I've had similar discussions with IRL colleagues. And for regulated industries, provide a validation suite they can run through to ensure that the audited versions of software are working as expected. The validation suite being where the real money is.
The open source community spent 25 years trying to argue that open source could be as professionally maintained and depended on as proprietary software, and now these jackasses are pissing away all the goodwill that's been built up.
Though I still like the +NIGGER license
It's going to open up a business opportunity. We'd probably throw a thousand or so a year for a unified, curated and audited repository for open source libraries. Python, javascript, R and maybe a few others.
Otherwise we're going to have to do it ourselves and live with not being on the latest and greatest.
I've had similar discussions with IRL colleagues. And for regulated industries, provide a validation suite they can run through to ensure that the audited versions of software are working as expected. The validation suite being where the real money is.