"FOSS was never about trust in software owners." Actually, it is. That's why foundations such as Apache, Mozilla, Khronos, etc exist. Transfers of ownership, a

"FOSS was never about trust in software owners." Actually, it is. That's why foundations such as Apache, Mozilla, Khronos, etc exist. Transfers of ownership, abandonment, and bad faith are not new. We need to trust not only in the software for today, but for tomorrow as well. Foundations step in because they're able to harness the financial clout to attract maintainers. "We must make software simpler." We must make software INTERFACES simpler. And that means opinionated solutions, preferably with a HEAVILY opinionated top layer API for the 80% and a less opinionated lower layer API for the 20%. This is where "wide open" development systems such as Javascript and Lisp fail: They offer too much freedom. You need a standard, opinionated library that provides most of what people need, just for interoperability sake. You need standard ways of doing the common tasks so that people can harness those patterns into reusable modules that stand a greater chance of working well with others.