Comment by SoftTalker
Comment by SoftTalker 2 days ago
Why does an MIT-licensed open source project owe you anything whatsoever?
Comment by SoftTalker 2 days ago
Why does an MIT-licensed open source project owe you anything whatsoever?
I don't see why. Every project periodically decides what features they will move forward with and what features they will drop. Some users will have built dependencies on those dropped features. That's their problem, not the software project developers.
Python dropped or changed a lot of things between Python 2 and Python 3, creating a lot of rework for a lot of users. Are they not to be trusted as a project? Is every project obligated to support every feature they ever released, forever, to be considered trustworthy?
To quote from the MIT license: THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND
They tried something hard and it didn’t work out. In the process they did some great work. Plus they gave it all away for free, allowing literally anyone in the world to continue the work. They are awesome.
If the rest of us criticized people making open source like you do, there wouldn’t be any.
How did you interpret this person comment as about being owed anything? It's simply a fact of life that it's not smart to put your eggs into an unstable basket.