Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by emilsedgh on Sunday June 03, 2018 @09:34PM (#17223791)

In my experience, open source projects that are primarily backed by companies fail to create a real community of developers. Therefore when the company dies, development stalls.

RethinkDB was something that I though would still go strong without the backing. I never used it and was never involved, so I'd love to hear what happened when the company died.

(One exemption is Xfree86 though, which was forked successfully by to community to Xorg if I recall correctly)

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by egeozcan on Monday June 04, 2018 @05:14AM (#17225930)

It's not going very well for RethinkDB, sadly: https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/6659

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by undseg on Sunday June 03, 2018 @10:36PM (#17224117)

That's true, and I want to add that usually it's the company's fault for not guiding the project into the hands of the community (be it intentionally or because of incompetence). Rust is a great example of a "company's project" that reached (or is reaching) a nice spot in autonomy.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by Iv on Sunday June 03, 2018 @11:08PM (#17224270)

I agree but I think Github and Atom are special cases.

A light IDE is not rocket science and this project is known (and loved) by many open source developers.

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