So...you're not disagreeing with anything I said, you're just trying to educate me on how difficult it is to build sustainable open source projects? Thanks, I'm painfully aware, I have experience maintaining an unsustainable open source project.
Or maybe you are trying to disagree with me, in the self-contradictory sentence in which you state that projects like Linux are not sustainable because community cares about them, but because community members find enough vested in them to support them. What's the difference between "care about" and "vested in and support"?
Or, for some reason, you and pjmlp don't consider people who work at corporations to be "community members". Turns out if you exclude most of the people who are paid to work on open source, then you find that there's no money being put into open source!
Look, I'm sorry to be snarky, but it's frustrating to be told facts that don't contradict nor add to what I've been saying, and that I'm already all too aware of. I don't know what point you're trying to make.
If you're just trying to point out that many important open source projects can't get corporate backing to become sustainable, again, I already know that from painful personal experience, but in the case of osxfuse it actually seems like it is in a position to get Google to pay up, and in any case the problem of sustainability in open source is squarely not the open source community's fault like pjmlp implied. That's been my point the whole time. I don't know what yours is.
Or maybe you are trying to disagree with me, in the self-contradictory sentence in which you state that projects like Linux are not sustainable because community cares about them, but because community members find enough vested in them to support them. What's the difference between "care about" and "vested in and support"?
Or, for some reason, you and pjmlp don't consider people who work at corporations to be "community members". Turns out if you exclude most of the people who are paid to work on open source, then you find that there's no money being put into open source!
Look, I'm sorry to be snarky, but it's frustrating to be told facts that don't contradict nor add to what I've been saying, and that I'm already all too aware of. I don't know what point you're trying to make.
If you're just trying to point out that many important open source projects can't get corporate backing to become sustainable, again, I already know that from painful personal experience, but in the case of osxfuse it actually seems like it is in a position to get Google to pay up, and in any case the problem of sustainability in open source is squarely not the open source community's fault like pjmlp implied. That's been my point the whole time. I don't know what yours is.