[nsonha]

I think it's ok, great even, the urge to make something that's so strong that you do act on it.

Having said a lot of people do software development for a living and they may depend on your project. So I think OSS authors do have the responsibility to word their motivation honestly, when they publish their projects.

[iamflimflam1]

I understand what you are saying.

But open sourcing some code does not equal some kind of agreement to support people using it.

[nsonha]

I didn’t say anything about supporting, just not to mislead people.

[Brian_K_White]

I can't figure out what you're even trying to say.

What risk of being misled is even possible in oss?

There are junk oss put out by companies that want to claim they do oss for PR, but no one is misled by that. If the code is junk that doesn't do anything but say, shim a blob which contains the actual goods, everyone knows that, as there is no way to hide it.

There are lots of crap oss, or high quality oss who's design goals I don't like, but none of that is misleading.

There are oss where the original author changed their terms after some time, but then everyone just forks the last good version and proceeds from there.

There are companies that try to steal oss, but the original thing they try to sell is still there.

In no case is there any opportunity for misleading that I see, because regardless of anyone's thoughts or intentions, the actions are all in the open.

[nsonha]

It's very simple, just put the project up and note: "I make a thing the way I like it". Do not paint a picture of something that you've made for public interests and actively encourage people to use it. Like when you make a fancy website and docs and benchmarks to compare to the n projects (that people depends on) before yours.

I personally would never use young OSSes, regardless of quality, but there are lots of gulible people in the software industry, not dissimilar to life in general.

[CharlieDigital]

    > I think it's ok, great even, the urge to make something that's so strong that you do act on it.

This has been my year for this. There's been a backlog of projects that I had to "code out of my system". None of them commercially viable, but all that tugged at me.

- https://coderev.app : code review as interview (OSS)

- https://turas.app : travel planning and story telling for well organized travellers (origin story: https://youtu.be/_SuT9TpJc2c)

- https://youtu.be/ObwLR6Wxr6o : "ProtocolGPT" - ChatGPT for clinical trial sites (latest one I'm building).

All three built between May and now. Built another project for fintech with another team.

Sometimes I think I'm crazy. Turned down a few really good startups this year working on stuff I wanted to.