It’s great news that the source is being released, but I get the impression this essentially means the company will end active development and put the onus on the OS community for future updates.
> Which is much better than just declaring end of life and no further updates.
Undoubtably true, although I would add that it hardly promotes free software as a "generally good thing" if the landscape is full of zombie projects like this, devoid of any community that makes open source what it is.
> So you would prefer an Utopia where nobody pays for other people's work but they still make it available for free and work on it forever?
That's not what GP said, and I'm not sure how you got there from them pointing out this was likely the end of development. From the community guidelines:
> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
Thank you for your comment, perhaps I was too harsh. Must be shell-shock from other commercial/open-source products.
onus is a formal word for responsibility or obligation. Until recently, the authors only had a responsibility to their paying customers. Open-sourcing the product instead of abandoning it is also a responsible choice.
How far must somebody take repressibility? Lifetime of unpaid updates seems a bit much.
It would be awesome if Tzuk came back around and maintained it. He/she could afford to donate some time after the windfall... *well deserved windfall, especially after the transitiin to x64 difficulties.
