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minus-squareballgoat@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoI’m not saying it would be easy, but that’s the whole point behind open source. We’d have to at least try.
minus-squarenull_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days ago“the community taking over” is not the whole point behind open source. There’s plenty of open source projects that need 100s of developers with niche credentials and experience to maintain. If mozilla dies, and that’s the current trajectory, then ladybug or similar will be our refuge.
minus-squareballgoat@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoYes, “the community taking over” is the entire ideology behind open source. Thats what it means. Anyone can develop it. It doesn’t mean that it needs to happen, just that part of the freedom you have is to do so. You’re conflating the two.
I’m not saying it would be easy, but that’s the whole point behind open source. We’d have to at least try.
“the community taking over” is not the whole point behind open source.
There’s plenty of open source projects that need 100s of developers with niche credentials and experience to maintain.
If mozilla dies, and that’s the current trajectory, then ladybug or similar will be our refuge.
Yes, “the community taking over” is the entire ideology behind open source. Thats what it means. Anyone can develop it. It doesn’t mean that it needs to happen, just that part of the freedom you have is to do so. You’re conflating the two.