Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by teeray 492 days ago
> If the dependencies wanted to get paid they should not have given their work away for free.

That’s not really a reasonable position. Nobody signs up for maintaining a library that most of the Internet depends upon with megacorps beating down their doors for an unpaid P0 fix. “They gave it away for free” doesn’t mean they are your eternal slave.