[kube-system]

You can certainly buy support contracts but they tend to accept liability primarily in regards to their support capability, not the total extent of what the law would otherwise allow. While FOSS may convey rights that proprietary software doesn’t, those rights are not necessarily valuable to any one user in particular.

This is why people choose different licenses. A software engineer in their dorm room cares about different things than an accountant in an office.

[monocasa]

I've never seen a support contract that conveys all liability the law allows. In general the more you spend the more the lawyers get really specific about what SLAs, etc. actually mean. And the baseline is never 'the developer is responsible for everything'. This is just as true for FOSS and it is for proprietary software.

And to talk about FOSS as happening in dorm rooms is 90s level FUD.

[kube-system]

> And to talk about FOSS as happening in dorm rooms is 90s level FUD.

It was an example of polar opposite use cases, I certainly was not meaning to convey that all users belonged to one group of the other.

[monocasa]

It's also simply not representative of what's being discussed. Support for FOSS is a many billion dollar industry, and describing it as happening in dorm rooms is absurd.

[kube-system]

I understand that. The statement was intentionally an example of an outlier, not making a generalization as you accuse.

There is, in fact, at least one person in a dorm room writing FOSS. (I've been one, myself) And there's at least one person in an accounting office who does not write software. These are examples of two individual people who have different needs. This is not a generalization of any industry as a whole.

[monocasa]

Bringing up examples and then hiding behind 'well I didn't mean for them to be illustrative' is pretty lame.

[kube-system]

I didn't ever mean anything else.

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html