As someone who was an avid swift developer, I can see how people can get attracted to building OSS for .NET or Swift, and how it might even be necessary in many cases given the lack of feature update by the companies. But, after leaving the world, I just really hope more devs see that they aren't valued by these companies for building such open source, and in continuing to validate their products through continued fixes, we are only making them stronger. Maybe I have a very pessimistic view, but I've started looking very literally at how companies make money from any open source work they do before using it so I know what they want of me in the future and to see if I support their business model or not. Its for this reason I picked using Singularity over Docker because I just know that a federal lab + contractors for scientific work will actually stress test and continue paying for the software while docker, who ultimately doesn't then a profit yet, may either get bought by one of the FAANG+ or have to start aggressively curtailing access.
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