Stephen Colebourne's blog: Commercial support for Joda and ThreeTen projects
The Java ecosystem is made up of many individuals, organisations and companies producing many different libraries. Some of the largest projects have long had support options where users of the project, typically corporates, can pay for an enhanced warranty, guaranteed approach to bug fixes and more.
Small projects, run by a single individual or a team, have been unable to offer this service, even if they wanted to. In addition, there is a more subtle problem. The amount a small project could charge is too low for a corporate to pay.
This sounds odd, but was brought home to me by this thread on twitter:
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