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On Tue, 14 May 2024 08:30:08 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote this copyrighted missive and expects
> royalties:
> 
>> On 14 May 2024 00:11:11 GMT, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
>>
>>> So, it would be beneficial to open-source developers to make sure that
>>> their software breaks easily and crashes, so as to sell the support.
> 
> Uh, projects with a reputation for breakage will stop being used at all.
> 
>> Clearly you have never used the stuff.
>>
>> No, actually, you are depending crucially on it right now, without
>> realizing it. Without Open Source, there would be no Internet.
> 
> One thing people don't seem to understand is that most programmers,
> especially "open-source" programmers, have pride!  They don't want to be
> ridiculed for writing garbage. They want to please their uses and
> respond quickly to issue reports. Many of them are even OCD about their
> code.

Only until they realize that they've made no money from it whatsoever. 
Whether you want to admit it or not, those programmers who were most 
insistent about supporting open-source eventually move on to greener 
pastures, and produce quality code in proprietary form.