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Posted Apr 27, 2026 13:14 UTC (Mon) by pabs (subscriber, #43278)
In reply to: Review? by tchernobog
Parent article: Dependency-cooldown discussions warm up

A few suggestions for your FOSS processes:

Hope your license compliance is up to scratch too :)

Have a budget for contributing back financially with direct donations and or sponsorship.

Have a team working on contributing back code and otherwise participating in FOSS communities, joining forums, mailing lists, conferences etc.

The unmaintained/undermaintained projects are the ones that need you to assist them *more* *instead* of ditching them.

Since you are a hardware company, please consider making it simple to replace your software/firmware with open equivalents.


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Posted Apr 27, 2026 13:36 UTC (Mon) by pizza (subscriber, #46) [Link]

> The unmaintained/undermaintained projects are the ones that need you to assist them *more* *instead* of ditching them.

...I wish more folks understood this.

(Not to mention that "undermaintained" being the overwhelming norm -- If you ditch those [sub-[sub-]] dependencies you're left with... doing all of the work yourself, I guess?)


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