Comment by mbonnet
10 months ago
At some point, the piper will come for companies that rely so heavily on open-source software they do not themselves financially support or contribute to.
10 months ago
At some point, the piper will come for companies that rely so heavily on open-source software they do not themselves financially support or contribute to.
Well, Vercel at least maintains the open-source Next.js, which is a pretty important framework for a lot of us. And they provide a generous free and Teams plan for small teams and individual devs that just need to spin something up with minimal fuss.
I'm biased (as a frontend dev who really appreciates what they've abstracted and simplified), but IMO they and Cloudflare have been the two companies really driving the Web forward as an app platform, where AWS and Google and Azure have stalled.
The piper has come and gone several times. Solarwinds, left-pad, xz-utils, we can keep going here. We can holler all we want about corporations handle open source so irresponsibly, but at the end of the day they don't care unless there is a lasting impact on their bottom line.
It has. It continues to do so. Look no further than the plethora of issues surrounding supply chain security. Or the recent attempts at legislating OSS maintainer obligations.
> supply chain security
https://www.softwaremaxims.com/blog/not-a-supplier
"You are not buying from a supplier, you are a raccoon digging through dumpsters for free code."