So the Bing cache is good and the article worth reading
This is however the money shot:
>> how many parts of your company’s product are coupled to the lifestyle and priorities of some lone, unpaid package maintainer? It’s something I have to think about too – in my day-job I build software on top of many FOSS libraries, many of which are probably maintained by people in similar circumstances to my own.
Given that my day job builds on (last count) 953 npm packages, most of which are probably different authors, not to mention servers, backend etc etc, I do really worry we are finding OSS backwards.
Good luck to the OP and his young family. And perhaps GitHub can set up a "pay me a days freelance rates work for issues fixed" feature
This is however the money shot:
>> how many parts of your company’s product are coupled to the lifestyle and priorities of some lone, unpaid package maintainer? It’s something I have to think about too – in my day-job I build software on top of many FOSS libraries, many of which are probably maintained by people in similar circumstances to my own.
Given that my day job builds on (last count) 953 npm packages, most of which are probably different authors, not to mention servers, backend etc etc, I do really worry we are finding OSS backwards.
Good luck to the OP and his young family. And perhaps GitHub can set up a "pay me a days freelance rates work for issues fixed" feature