Comment by lolinder
5 days ago
Unfortunately that's not really feasible in the current state of open source. There are enormous numbers of entitled users out there who become a parasitic drain on any project that is open sourced. Solo maintainers can theoretically just develop a think skin, but companies can actually find that the damage to their public image from not having their FOSS project in tip top shape is greater than the benefits of open sourcing it in the first place.
You can always just disable issues and all other feedback channels. I judge companies on the state of their open source libraries, but it really depends on how the company positions it. Facebook pushed for react to become the default framework, so they deserve the scrutiny when it doesn’t hold up. However, with a clear disclaimer like that? I think that people would have different expectations.
You might, but consumers of FOSS code are extremely unreasonable.
Just put a tarball url on a plain website then. No community interaction required to share code
> There are enormous numbers of entitled users out there who become a parasitic drain on any project that is open sourced.
Been there with AOSP, but that won't be changing anytime soon. I highly doubt noobs will learn the open source etiquette unfortunately.