The author of an open source project usually makes NO guarantees and assumes no liability. They've tossed a blueprint into the world.
When you decided to use it, you took on all of its technical debt and design decisions as your own. You can't fault the author if you use it in an environment they didn't have, or didn't intend it to be used in, or in a manner that wasn't intended. They left an artifact, they did NOT make an agreement to support it.
If someone makes a mistake in a book, there's no obligation for the author to correct it. If someone misunderstands the ideas and goes on to do some horrible deeds using it as justification, it's not the author's fault.
Open source software is, for the most part, an unsupported gift economy. It isn't commercial, and it certainly isn't a chain... there's no delivery to be had... something was tossed over the wall, and it may never happen again.
We Tims have been waiting for the next episode of Hello Internet for a while now... it may never come. That is also the nature of open source software.
When you decided to use it, you took on all of its technical debt and design decisions as your own. You can't fault the author if you use it in an environment they didn't have, or didn't intend it to be used in, or in a manner that wasn't intended. They left an artifact, they did NOT make an agreement to support it.
If someone makes a mistake in a book, there's no obligation for the author to correct it. If someone misunderstands the ideas and goes on to do some horrible deeds using it as justification, it's not the author's fault.
Open source software is, for the most part, an unsupported gift economy. It isn't commercial, and it certainly isn't a chain... there's no delivery to be had... something was tossed over the wall, and it may never happen again.
We Tims have been waiting for the next episode of Hello Internet for a while now... it may never come. That is also the nature of open source software.