[diggan]

That's fine and all. I'm not really involved in that side of things (consuming/producing open source libraries) and I think that side of open source is working fine, albeit it could be better (like most things).

What I'm mainly thinking about, is the running infrastructure. The live servers that are serving requests and providing a service to open source developers.

Some of these services are just nice to have.

Others are services we 100% depend on to get anything done nowadays.

The npm Inc registry is a good example. Imagine that the registry disappears tomorrow. Probably most JS developers would struggle until a alternative becomes clear and most people migrate there.

But just having the risk of having for-profit companies run these pieces of critical open source infrastructure, is a big risk for me as a open source developer.

This open source infrastructure is what I'm scared about, because we basically have no good solutions yet, for running open source infrastructure.

[werbel]

I understand that and that's why I haven't said there's anything wrong with your opinion or that I disagree.

Yes, we'd all love to have our tools (repository, package hosting, CIs, ...) both satisfying our needs and be free of whims of for-profit companies.

Some of us simply don't care that much as long as what we have now works and I just wanted to append that to the conversation.

That's why I only said that your message reads like... and not assumed you really believe the service is bad in overall just because it's bad within scope of one aspect that's close to your heart. :)

[diggan]

Thanks for clarifying! I do understand what you mean and agree as well.

In the end, different people will have different priorities :)