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by coldtea 4216 days ago
>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.

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".