Re:Cloudflare acquires Astro
by Seattle3503 on Friday January 16, 2026 @12:52PM
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So when folks say they want to see big companies invest in open source, this is what that looks like. CF could have kept coasting on what Astro was building, but instead they are paying for it. But in return they get a lot of control.
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Well, hopefully more like Go's relationship with Google? The company that pays the bills is their first and most important customer, but as far as I can tell from the outside, the Go team makes its own plans and management doesn't pull rank.
Re:Cloudflare acquires Astro
by Seattle3503 on Friday January 16, 2026 @02:23PM
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Definitely!
Re:Cloudflare acquires Astro
by knowitnone3 on Friday January 16, 2026 @04:30PM
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You know this because you work on the Go team or part of google management?
> as far as I can tell from the outside
Anyone with actual knowledge, feel free to chime in.
Re:Cloudflare acquires Astro
by ignoramous on Friday January 16, 2026 @03:04PM
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> CF could have kept coasting on what Astro was building, but instead they are paying for it. But in return they get a lot of control.
Supabase pioneered the modern implementation of this model. Probably, RedHat before it? Google also tend to "acquihire" maintainers of popular FOSS projects, like Ben Goodger (Firefox), Scott Remnant (Upstart), Junio Hamano (Git), Guido von Rossum (Python).