I think that open source people should also be able to recognize that always sponsoring a new project is not the open source way.
They could have given established software a facelift and added a lot more features and this would have been better for the open source world than what they did.
I mean it’s not wrong what they did. They just shouldn’t get as much praise for making it open source.
Imagine everyone creating their own versioning system because they don’t like githubs frontend.
I think we’re thinking about it wrong. These aren’t open source people looking to contribute to projects. These are product creators looking to reach the open source community. It’s not the same mindset.
With $4M you could round the edges and then some.
I think that open source people should also be able to recognize that always sponsoring a new project is not the open source way.
They could have given established software a facelift and added a lot more features and this would have been better for the open source world than what they did.
I mean it’s not wrong what they did. They just shouldn’t get as much praise for making it open source.
Imagine everyone creating their own versioning system because they don’t like githubs frontend.
I think we’re thinking about it wrong. These aren’t open source people looking to contribute to projects. These are product creators looking to reach the open source community. It’s not the same mindset.
Oh, I do know that. But lots of folks even here don’t and that is my problem with all that.
The FOSS community shouldn’t praise them or companies like them simply for open sourcing the MVP of a new product.
That’s a fair take
I have no problem with that if they offer something new to the space
Yes, but the only thing they add is enterprise addons. We don’t need more of those.