@marcan@treehouse.systems @Di4na ideally this would be something offset with some government funding, since it can be said to be part of critical infrastructure.
but we know that doesn't happen.
my comment was more in generic terms, we have far too many "create and dump" projects that are abandoned far too quickly, creating a kind of software pollution in a sense.
I really dislike this idea that when we make something we have no responsibility about it whatsoever.
@falktx @marcan i mean I think i would say otherwise. That when we use something we should consider its maintenance. The makers should definitely think about it, but it is not like X was made to be hard to maintain at the time.
But the users are definitely expecting far more than reasonable from the makers in your current demands. The whole of open source is based on the idea the users are the one responsible. Do we need an other equilibrium maybe but... Beware.
@Di4na @marcan@treehouse.systems as with everything, there is a balance and it is not purely black and white.
I fear that users will get tired of the situation where a cool project exists but stopped being maintained long time ago, creating this image of "abandonware trashland".
@Di4na @marcan@treehouse.systems related to this...
we often push the idea that with proprietary software we are at the mercy of what its owner wants to do, that the same thing (in theory) doesnt happen if it was opensource.
but from users POV they are all the same. and at least with commercial software (which is usually proprietary) there is an incentive to maintain it.
this is a bit off-topic, sorry, just something I think about a lot.
