Instead, the title functions as a clickbaity hook, to promote the fork that the author is ostensibly apologizing for making.
(I don't know whether the fork is good, bad, or neither. Just, probably I should've guessed what the most likely meaning of the title would be.)
The title (which I indeed wanted to be a good catch phrase) was not meant to be an apology. English is not my mother tongue, so I may be misguided, but I meant "sorry" as "I am sorry about the state of affairs", not literally "I apologize to you, the sqlx library".
I'm sorry that people seem to focus on your use of the word sorry, I read it to mean in the sense of "it's a shame that the world is how it is".
> There was further debate over the exact meaning of the Chinese translation issued by the U.S. Embassy. A senior administration official was quoted as saying "What the Chinese will choose to characterize as an apology, we would probably choose to characterize as an expression of regret or sorrow".[32]
I have worked at two companies which have not built on open source software at all, both companies which built a product from the ground up that has not existed before. There are a few open source libraries used in peripheral parts of the codebase, but the money-maker codebase was, both times, powered by proprietary compilers and not much else.
But ultimately he is making a good point. IMO FOSS is the ultimate socialism - literally anyone who downloads Linux is a part owner of a trillion dollar construct - we all own it. We can fork it any time - and the reason we keep to one is purely a social decision to use that fork not that one.
And if we all own FOSS like we all own the seas or a forest we need to find means to look after it.
God Knows how. And she ain't telling.
