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by ricardobeat
1554 days ago
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By “unsupported software” I don’t think he means any kind of support for his particular use of the software, but simply the pace of development - keeping up with system API evolution, dependencies, fixing bugs in the original code. Software rots, and you generally don’t want to adopt a project that is not having basic maintenance being done. |
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But it's not your right to demand anything from a project, including demanding that they do basic maintenance or disclose whether they are going to do it. Maybe they don't even know, or maybe they change their mind lots of times ever year or every day. If you don't get a promise of this happening, neither assume anything nor start to demand it.
(Even if you get a promise, if it's some individual writing something on the net, it's not worth much. If they fail doing it despite the promise, they are being idiots, which they are free to be, and you are free to ignore them going forward or be angry.)
The attitude that published open source software is generally expected to be supported with basic maintenance is bad. It burns out creators who also believe in this myth and it creates an atmosphere that fosters this and in the end, less software is placed under open source licenses because people feel that that would include some obligation after. It does not. Just because you find some piece of code on the internet does not entitle you to anything.