> What companies do with the source is their thing. They get all of the benefits and all of the responsibilities.
I know this very well and for some irrational reason it still makes me anxious to think about the many people relying on one of my free-time project that is used in classroom and medical settings. When there is a nasty bug found it's hard to shake the feeling of responsibility.
I have disabled the counting of downloads for this reason, I would rather not know just how many people rely on it and instead focus on improving it without pressure.
>> When there is a nasty bug found it's hard to shake the feeling of responsibility.
I know right? Someone just opened a github issue for a CVE in one of our dependencies. It's only relevant if you're opening a .DXF file from an untrusted source, so it doesn't seem terribly relevant but yet... And updating to a newer version would take effort, and we want to replace it with something else anyway which would take effort. None of that effort is where I want to spend my free time. But I do work on the software because I like it and really want it to continue being around and useful, and that isn't going to happen unless I (and others) make it happen.
I know this very well and for some irrational reason it still makes me anxious to think about the many people relying on one of my free-time project that is used in classroom and medical settings. When there is a nasty bug found it's hard to shake the feeling of responsibility.
I have disabled the counting of downloads for this reason, I would rather not know just how many people rely on it and instead focus on improving it without pressure.