[TomasEkeli]

i think those two actually collapse to the exact same thing: "no guaranteed support"

[saagarjha]

Collapsing them misses the nuance that I am specifically talking about. It’s kind of like when the ice cream parlor down the street gives our free samples and you decide to go “well, actually, they don’t have to give you any samples because they can refuse service to anyone so in fact there is no difference in them providing free samples and not providing free samples” and it turns out that people can offer things in good faith without having to promise them in a legal contract. You definitely shouldn’t prepare a lawsuit based on the free samples but it’s totally reasonable to visit every week to try their latest flavor.

[blittle]

That's a poor analogy. An ice cream parlor offers free icecream purely to market thier product and drive business. An OSS dev gets nothing.