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Discussion on: Explain The Pros & Cons of OSS Like I'm Five

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Omri Gabay • Edited

Cons is that it's a sticky situation when noone feels like maintaining your package anymore even though half the globe depends on it through some weird dependency chain

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Dennis Ploeger

Honestly, I had that more with commercial software than with OSS.

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Robin Palotai

"Your depend on it, you fix it."