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> When companies just throw willy nilly money at big hunking shells like the CNCF it gates projects into this very corporatized world that is quite distinct fro
by mfer 6y ago
> When companies just throw willy nilly money at big hunking shells like the CNCF it gates projects into this very corporatized world that is quite distinct from open source culture, and again damages open source.
How does giving money to something like the CNCF gate projects? How is the world those are developed in differ culturally from open source culture?
I've developed for CNCF projects and random projects (some of which have become popular). I didn't notice a culture difference. I did notice an outside support difference.
I'm curious what you mean.
- kodah 6y agoThe CNCF is pretty distinct from organizations like Debian or The Linux Foundation, and even Debian comes under the same sort of fire I'm about to lay down here. At this time, I think it's more skepticism than the understanding of what the problem is, but it boils down to corporate influence and what level of influence companies are allowed to have on projects. Companies have several methods of influence: - Financial contributions (and the projects nature of dependence) - Developer interest and representation (eg: when a mega-corp installs a developer and combines that with things like funding) - Board representation A quick anecdotal example was the whole kerfuffle about Google using it's influence to insert kustomize into kubectl. [0] Big organizations like Debian or the CNCF are attractively large targets for the above concerns. [0] https://goteleport.com/blog/kubernetes-kustomize-kep-kerfuffle/ https://goteleport.com/blog/kubernetes-kustomize-kep-kerfuff...