Remember: It's okay for your F/OSS project to be finished.
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Remember: It's okay for your F/OSS project to be finished. You don't have shareholders who need you to grow every year. You don't have customers who need to be persuaded to buy a subscription or a new version every year by marketing-driven features. If it solves the problem that you created it to solve, you have won. You now have some software that solves the problem that you had. You are allowed to stop now.
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Remember: It's okay for your F/OSS project to be finished. You don't have shareholders who need you to grow every year. You don't have customers who need to be persuaded to buy a subscription or a new version every year by marketing-driven features. If it solves the problem that you created it to solve, you have won. You now have some software that solves the problem that you had. You are allowed to stop now.
@david_chisnall ... though even finished projects, much like buildings or gardens, will require some small amount of ongoing maintenance.
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@david_chisnall ... though even finished projects, much like buildings or gardens, will require some small amount of ongoing maintenance.
@whitequark @david_chisnall like when you update the OS and something breaks, or you port it to a new architecture and something breaks...
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@whitequark @david_chisnall like when you update the OS and something breaks, or you port it to a new architecture and something breaks...
@JamesWidman @david_chisnall pretty much, yeah. I've seen people argue that this should never happen because other people have an obligation to ensure total, perfect compatibility and that's just nonsense; you built it, you keep maintaining it or it breaks.
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Remember: It's okay for your F/OSS project to be finished. You don't have shareholders who need you to grow every year. You don't have customers who need to be persuaded to buy a subscription or a new version every year by marketing-driven features. If it solves the problem that you created it to solve, you have won. You now have some software that solves the problem that you had. You are allowed to stop now.
@david_chisnall To add to this: It's OK if your F/OSS doesn't have significant market share. Once you have enough users that your project is guaranteed to stay alive, and you are happy with it, you don't really get much from the extra market share. You have won, you don't need to work for larger market share, there are no shareholders to please with tbat.
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Remember: It's okay for your F/OSS project to be finished. You don't have shareholders who need you to grow every year. You don't have customers who need to be persuaded to buy a subscription or a new version every year by marketing-driven features. If it solves the problem that you created it to solve, you have won. You now have some software that solves the problem that you had. You are allowed to stop now.
@david_chisnall
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