They are also, by complaining, incentivizing other people to not even *offer* fr...

1dom · 2025-10-25T15:45:16 1761407116

They're incentivising people to ensure they give proper notice when pulling free services, that even offering free services come with responsibility.

arghwhat · 2025-10-26T15:56:39 1761494199

No they're just incentivizing not caring.

"Responsibility" is a word mostly thrown about by people making demands as if they are somehow entitled to full service contracts on stuff they got for free - which is especially fun when said provider offers actual service contracts.

Dylan16807 · 2025-10-24T00:29:52 1761265792

Discouraging unreliable free things is good in a lot of cases.

arghwhat · 2025-10-26T15:57:32 1761494252

You just get fewer free things then. Not sure how thats good.

Dylan16807 · 2025-10-26T20:37:45 1761511065

Free things tend to push out competition. So the worst case scenario is pushing out competition and then disappearing.

arghwhat · 2025-10-27T12:44:13 1761569053

This happens more often with paid things, as these have a direct financial incentive to elliminate competition and grow adoption. Free stuff does not.

Dylan16807 · 2025-10-27T23:07:11 1761606431

When it's a free option from a paid company, you get the worst of both worlds for risk of disappearing. And that's the situation here.

The open source baseline is still there, which is great, but if someone else was making these packages they'd be less likely to silently drop it.