I think you make a good point regarding support. This is, for businesses, the crucial issue. They want to buy reliance, support and certainty. This is what commerce, like Microsoft, offers; peace of mind for (big) bucks.

Organizations can’t easily take measures to assure proper support for a lot of open source software. They’d have to hire and probably educate a lot of expertise, which all has to be managed too.

It’s just a whole lot easier for decision makers to spent extra money to have a contractor solve any issues, or at be able to blame (sue) them.

I’m sorry Dave

This is quiet an unexpected turn of technical advancement. I can see people would actual watch this if it’s the only available or affordable alternative. The enshitification continues…

“obfuscated code hidden in the ‘dist/index.js’ file that was only visible when the user scrolled horizontally”

Malicious intentions aside, surely this is artistic ingenuity

Yeah, I just finally updated the last remaining servers to bookworm this weekend, so a next release is probably coming soon. Proven by earlier experiences

Willen de ambtenaren dat niet, of de lobbyisten?