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by vampirechicken
4215 days ago
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> whether we should be trusting so much of our infrastructure to one company that hasn't yet started to monetize the technology We trusted free software for a long time before we needed to call it open source to make it sound palatable to less visionary business leaders. We'll go on trusting the FOSS. The free and open nature of it means that we're never really trusting the company (the corporate entity) just the people they've amassed to work on the FOSS. Those people can continue to work on the FOSS after the company disolves, because the osftware is open/free. |
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If they aren't volunteers doing it for fun, though, they wont, unless someone pays them.
And even some very popular FOSS projects millions of people use have just one or two overworked maintainers and not much in the way of funding or contributions.
So FOSS is no magic bullet "as long as the code is open and there are users the project will be worked on".