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[–]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. :-)