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Apropos of nothing—a company may hypothetically find themselves between a rock and a hard place when said company has little-to-no resources to invest in a framework but relies on revenue from enterprise customers depending on that framework.

In fact, this hypothetical company may even publicly overstate the resources they are investing in said framework to protect that revenue.

I’m glad this is not what is happening.

20 replies

Brian Rinaldi 3 min later

@zachleat Good thing this is totally hypothetical. I'd hate for anything like that to *actually* happen.
1. Zach Leatherman 8 min later
  
  @remotesynth Can you imagine if it were happening though? I’m glad it isn’t.
  But imagine you were an enterprise customer of the framework. They must be very relieved that this is not happening
Ayo 6 min later

@zachleat
Chris Coleman 7 min later

@zachleat I award this toot three Eudora chili peppers. 🌶️🌶️🌶️
1. Nicholas Edward Werner-Matavka March 25, 2024
  
  @Chris @zachleat Kudos for the Eudora reference. Love to see the granddaddy of the program I develop (with other people) get a name-check.
Axel Rauschmayer 10 min later

@zachleat But then why buy the framework’s company if money is tight?
1. Zach Leatherman 18 min later
  
  @rauschma to answer that you’d probably need knowledge of the purchase terms, to which I’d rather not comment on since this is a hypothetical situation
  1. Axel Rauschmayer 20 min later
    
    @zachleat Sure!
2. Pelle Wessman 29 min later
  
  @rauschma @zachleat I truly thought you were talking about @frameworkcomputer, yay generic names 😂
  1. Zach Leatherman 30 min later
    
    @voxpelli @rauschma I’ve heard good things about @frameworkcomputer! how many node_modules can fit in one of those bad boys
    1. Pelle Wessman 33 min later
      
      @zachleat @rauschma @frameworkcomputer Oh, you see, its open and extensible, so you can build your own node_modules expansion card: https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/ExpansionCards
      That should solve everything and more!
      Time to fetch those FPGA:s and tweak those npm cores.
Rob Anderson 10 min later

@zachleat 😬
Alan Charlesworth 1 hr later

@zachleat 🤣
Chris Ferdinandi 1 hr later

@zachleat Hypothetically, of course
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Simon MacDonald 2 hr later

@zachleat This is certainly not happening and has never happened before certainly not at any large company I've every worked at.
"Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.”
1. Zach Leatherman 2 hr later
  
  @macdonst it has never happened and it will definitely happen again
  1. Simon MacDonald 3 hr later
    
    @zachleat https://youtu.be/bm3UkOmkkIU?si=za7yWGyc_Q7tlBgN&t=36
Mike Aparicio 4 hr later

@zachleat Sounds like hypothetically I may need to find a new host for my enterprise 11ty sites. 😅