Over the long term, proprietary services, like proprietary software, doesn't exist. There is no such thing as a durable proprietary community, and we can do better than consigning ourselves to the tides of rentier-nomadism.

OSS devs, please hear me: your installer _is your product_. It is the first, and an exactly correct, impression you give people of how much you care about, how much you've invested in, the human experience of working with your software, and with you.