Bill Doerrfeld writes in »What To Do When Critical Open Source Projects Go End of Life« for thenewstack.io “That doesn’t just mean money — it means showing up, contributing engineering time, asking thoughtful questions and understanding their roadmap,” said Hanlon. “If your business relies on OSS, you’re part of that ecosystem and part of the responsibility.” The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense. ...
From the outside, open source often looks like a technical concept. A license here, a repository there, a few lines of source code, publicly visible. But look closer and you’ll see: it’s about much more than software. It’s about freedom. And about sharing. I’m not a developer in the classic sense. I’ve never overseen major projects or designed complex software architectures. But over the years I’ve written many small scripts, sometimes in PHP, sometimes in Python or Perl. I’ve built websites with WordPress, written HTML and CSS, tried things out and discarded them. Never aiming for perfection, but always wanting to create something that works — for me, and sometimes for others. ...