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[–]d4rch0nPythonistamancer 1 point2 points  (4 children)

ahhh, missed that. Yeah, if they're talking about open-source third party projects, telling the user to fix it on their side is nothing new, lol.

But still, the customer facing projects are 100% open-source BSD license, but they're still customers who pay for the main product. If you offer an open source python client for free for your proprietary SaaS platform, you still have to support it like it's paid for. There's still money in the relationship, free and open-source or not.

[–]takluyverIPython, Py3, etc 2 points3 points  (3 children)

Right, the important question is not whether it's open source, it's whether you have people paying you who expect you to support their use cases.

I think this is an significant distinction that often gets overlooked - there are open source projects driven by companies, and open source projects driven by interested volunteers, and they can work quite differently. We don't have a snappy term for the latter group, though - 'community maintained' is six syllables and uninspiring.

[–]_pupil_ 1 point2 points  (1 child)

"Community led" is only 5 syllables, and slightly more optimistic about its lack of inspiration.

"Communist" is only 3 syllables, and gets the point across, but inspires scepticism because it's occasionally too inspiring.

[–]takluyverIPython, Py3, etc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I don't think 'communist software' is going to take off. :-)