Kindness and open-source projects

Posted Jul 12, 2018 9:39 UTC (Thu) by oldtomas (guest, #72579)
Parent article: Kindness and open-source projects

Quoth the article:

Visual Studio Code [which] is Microsoft's cross-platform open-source code editor [...] That means there is a company backstopping the [Visual Studio Code] project; if the community fell away, the project would continue.

and then:

Python is community open source; if the community disappeared, the project "would probably collapse within a month".

Very subtle indeed. But I see what you did there!

Hanlon's razor? Perhaps. But there are contexts where I'm downright unwilling to apply that, based on 2.5 decades of experience.

Kindness and open-source projects

Posted Jul 12, 2018 14:27 UTC (Thu) by cpitrat (subscriber, #116459) [Link]

If Visual Studio Code community disappear, the company will loose interest and stop backing it and it will die just as fast. But eveb worse, the company support is something that can disappear with a management change which would seriously harm the project and the community.