> If developers aren't paid, their code can easily fall into disrepair which hurts all their users.
I agree with you, but I also work in a place where we operate 35 year old medical software that hasn’t needed a change in more than two decades.
I know that’s unique and most of the stuff we build today will be out of rotation and obsolete in 5 years, but maybe we should have a conversation about the sustainability of modern software?
I work in the public sector by the way, we operate around 10 different open source projects where I work, and we generally want them build to need as few changes as possible because developers are expensive. We do build for the web, as so many others, but we’ve actually achieved a ton of sustainable by using old slow moving techs like Django rather than more modern stuff.
The simple truth is that we wouldn’t be able to afford open source software if we build it like most people build software these days.
I agree with you, but I also work in a place where we operate 35 year old medical software that hasn’t needed a change in more than two decades.
I know that’s unique and most of the stuff we build today will be out of rotation and obsolete in 5 years, but maybe we should have a conversation about the sustainability of modern software?
I work in the public sector by the way, we operate around 10 different open source projects where I work, and we generally want them build to need as few changes as possible because developers are expensive. We do build for the web, as so many others, but we’ve actually achieved a ton of sustainable by using old slow moving techs like Django rather than more modern stuff.
The simple truth is that we wouldn’t be able to afford open source software if we build it like most people build software these days.