Bit of a lazy toot: does anyone have any experience with the support policies of vendors behind open source products?
A client has a heavily patched version of our software. I don't think we can reasonably support it but they're saying "other vendors do." I don't see how that can be true. How can you certify an unknown volume of code you can't see?
Stephen Darlington
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2026-08-24 12:58:41 UTC
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