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Speculating (remember that I'm just an engineer and not in charge of business decisions), but perhaps because Mapbox tried really hard to build a business on se
by mourner 6y ago
Speculating (remember that I'm just an engineer and not in charge of business decisions), but perhaps because Mapbox tried really hard to build a business on server-side services alone while gifting most of its innovations to the world, and after a decade of enormous effort, keeping the client of such enormous complexity fully open source appears to be unsustainable? Would you rather see Mapbox getting eaten by big tech corporations and ceasing to exist?
- vetinari 6y ago> ould you rather see Mapbox getting eaten by big tech corporations and ceasing to exist? With move like this, what's the difference? (Yes, I do share anonfornoreason's sentinent in the sibling comment.)
- mourner 6y agoThere may be no difference for you with this level of vitriol, but there's a difference for hundreds of people who have jobs, and for dozens of engineers like me who will keep contributing to open source significantly at work hours.
- vetinari 6y agoThe point was, that it is no longer open source, when ToS acceptance with rights of audit is needed. It's no different to the likes of Oracle. Oracle also employs hundreds of people. But hey, if you think everyone who criticizes it is full of vitriol, I don't think any further discussion is needed.