Rob Mensching

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[Rob Mensching @robmen]

This mostly tracks. It's easier to build something. It's harder to know if you can give it to someone else.

[staysaasy @staysaasy]

In my experience the people who are both thriving under AI and very happy are not being held accountable to anything.

[Rob Mensching @robmen]

@Aaronontheweb @InezFeltscher Interesting. "trunk or treat" was at the school with all the kids' school friends and "trick or treat" was in the neighborhood with all the neighbors.
Kids got to wear and share their costumes on multiple nights. It was fun (my kids are older now).

[Rob Mensching @robmen]

This is true and also happens to be the basis of the Open Source Maintenance Fee.

[Vlad Mihalcea @vlad_mihalcea]

People who think SaaS or legacy commercial products will vanish because someone will reverse-engineer them and publish the code on GitHub don't know how OSS really works.

While OSS code is free for anyone to change and improve, that's the exception, not the rule. Most clients just want a working product, and if it doesn't work, they'd rather move on than spend their energy on fixing it.

After all, how many people use Linux on their desktops, compared to Macs and Windows?

[Rob Mensching @robmen]

You don't really need this dot-version, unless your compliance team is complaining.

[FireGiant @firegiantco]

WiX v7.0.1 is now available https://t.co/jioIHySNEM

[chloe @chlorbee]

i like the idea of twitter no longer being a platform but a concept, shattered across time and space

[Rob Mensching @robmen]

@RustyRishii GitHub charges the payer fees, not the payee. Also, invoices have a $5000 minimum. At least in the countries I know of.

This is not generally good advice.

[Rob Mensching @robmen]

@tagtag193 @RustyRishii GitHub to you is Stripe Connect

[Rob Mensching @robmen]

@kuza55 I don't see a lot of people asking that question, so I found your blog post interesting and was curious if you'd considered what happens next.

[Rob Mensching @robmen]

@kuza55 I understand. I've been thinking about different facets of the OSS sustainability problem for a while. The OSMF is a fairly recent attempt to tackle maintainer burnout: https://t.co/rlFlHMbkIq.

What I'm trying to figure out now is what sort of world do we want?

[Rob Mensching @robmen]

This makes complete sense. Vite+ (now owned by @Cloudflare ) is built on pnpm, so paying for the maintenance of pnpm is in their best interest.

[pnpm @pnpmjs]

Thanks to @Cloudflare and @vite_js for sponsoring pnpm!

[Rob Mensching @robmen]

@builtbybel Code doesn't build on `main`. Seems several files are missing? Can you add them?

[Rob Mensching @robmen]

@darren_l_clark @Dave_DotNet The NuGet file format includes a mechanism called "requireLicenseAcceptance" that lets the author indicate that their .nupkg requires license acceptance.

Unfortunately, only VS respects it. So, a solution is only partially implemented...

[Rob Mensching @robmen]

@antfu7 Congratulations.

[Rob Mensching @robmen]

@ThatsPranav Nothing wrong with NOT choosing an OSI license. Just don't say you did. And definitely don't highlight "Open Source" as your key differentiator when you're not. That makes you look untrustworthy.

[Rob Mensching @robmen]

Same. Gave the bag of food to the same shelter we adopted him from. Six months later, we adopted two kittens. It was too quiet. :)

[Dianna @Dianna60613]

Needed to return an order to @Chewy b/c one of my cats passed away and it was an autoship of food that was just for him, and they offered a refund without returning the food. They suggested donating it to a shelter or friend. Can’t tell you how much that meant to me 💗

[Rob Mensching @robmen]

@aarnott GPL is not the definition of copyleft. Famous, but not singular.

My issue is that some people are trying to redefine Open Source without its core freedoms. By all means, debate the merits of individual licenses (RPL!?!?), but OSS means something. I hope we don't forget that.

[Rob Mensching @robmen]

This is false. Copyleft isn't about scarcity or the One Ring. Copyleft is about freedom.

And we should question anyone who wants to take those freedoms away.

[DHH @dhh]

The entire copyleft licensing regime was built for a "software is scarce and precious" world that no longer exists. But watch the old guard cling to these obsolete rites like a pre-reformation priest to a Latin Bible.

[Rob Mensching @robmen]

@aarnott IMHO, the GPL has too much "manifesto" in it. I think the MS-RL is a better copyleft example.

Old thoughts I still believe:
https://t.co/DBJCuSuBRy