> On Feb 3, 2025, at 14:09, ben via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > At the root of Open Source is you, the user, have the right to the source
> > code.
>
Open Source projects these days have short release cycles and are often
abandoned for the new hotness.
Part of my day job is supporting products that were developed years ago and are
still selling and are being updated now because a component in it has been
EOL’ed and replaced with a part the old kernel can’t handle. When I worked at
Sun, code of this age was still supported. However for the open source software
used in this product even the upstream repos and SDK tarballs are nowhere to be
found on the internet.
alan
