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A dependency you would need engineer-months to replace or fork is a critical one, and retaining its maintainer is straightforward business sense.

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  1. Filippo Valsorda

    Cryptographer, formerly of the Go team at Google

    This is how I frame it: if the effort required to replace or fork a dependency should it go unmaintained is measured in engineer-months, that’s a critical dependency and retaining its maintainers probably makes good business sense.

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