Closing Canario Terminal source code
A software developer has decided to close-source their terminal project, Canario, citing the unsustainable burden of maintaining open-source software. The author highlights how AI-generated spam and high user expectations have made community-driven development increasingly difficult.
Why it matters
This reflects a growing trend among independent developers who are reconsidering the viability of open-source projects in an era of automated spam and burnout.
Disclaimer: No AI was used to write this.
Also, writing this blog post for myself, so I can reason with myself again in the future ha.
I have been doing Open Source since I was 17y old. My first pull request was fixing some broken links in Brad Frost’s This is responsive project.
I spoke in free software conferences when I was 18y, got engaged, my dream job for many and many years was work at Mozilla. Most of the companies I’ve worked for, I helped to kick start open sourcing internal projects.
However I decided to close source Canario terminal.
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