> To be honest, I would be much more afraid of google touching an open source project for that matter Google has thousands of open source projects, including t

> To be honest, I would be much more afraid of google touching an open source project for that matter Google has thousands of open source projects, including the Chromium web browser, the Chromium operating system, the V8 Javascript engine that Node.js depends on, Kubernetes, Golang, the Android OSP, gRPC, Tensorflow, Authenticator (2FA), etc. The track record you're apparently referring to, of commercial products being discontinued, is not really that relevant to this. The issue in that case is that they are services that users come to depend on, and then are forced to switch away from. There's not really a comparable scenario in open source. The worst case is that the original sponsor stops paying for new development. If the project is viable enough, forks and other sponsors are likely to arise.