This is vaguely discomforting but perhaps inevitable in a world where open source is sponsored, funded or developed by corporate interests. The connection with

This is vaguely discomforting but perhaps inevitable in a world where open source is sponsored, funded or developed by corporate interests. The connection with end users and ideology has been broken as everything from the kernel to major projects are corporate funded and driven. And most inadvertently acknowledge this when they raise concerns about the sustainability of projects without financial or corporate backing. The exploding complexity of things like browsers and projects like Systemd make the idea of individuals and smalls team developing alternatives without corporate backing a non stater. Most open source projects in the last 10 years would see this kind of acquisition as an ideal outcome and for vc funded ones a necessary one. Even a 'fork' of Nginx at this time would most likely be driven by commercial motives so the 'vague discomfort' expressed in this comment itself is perhaps misplaced.