Pick two: 1. Valuable product maintained by professionals 2. Is free 3. Will be around for a long time - craigyk
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Replying to @mperham
Rails is going on 12 years and counting and Ruby on 21. Odd reality to argue against.
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Replying to @dhh
That said, OSS is littered with dead projects that tried to do 1 and 2. You and I both found a way around it.
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Replying to @mperham
Love that you made it work with Sidekiq and Phusion with Passenger. But these are the exceptions, not other way around.
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Replying to @dhh
Yep, point of the tweet is that tech isn't enough - must also have path for long-term sustainability. Basecamp provides that for RoR.
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Replying to @mperham
Definitely. There was never a sustainable option in "sit at home with no job and work on free OSS all day". But who claimed that?
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indeed.
5:06 PM - 8 Oct 2016
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