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For whatever reason, until I started reading the article, the first thing that came to my mind was "why did axios (the http library) sell?"

adhesive_wombat 4y ago
I won't lie, I'd sell an HTTP library for half a billion and change.
- redanddead 4y ago
  but then it wouldn't be much of a library anymore right? people buy in and work on open source projects because they're open source. that's the only reason I contribute to projects, because it's for the community I know of a few projects that are closed source but on npm, one of which is syncfusion, they make frontend components, I only found them when I was searching for a tree map component. But then I found echarts's tree map component by Apache, and it was like a completely next level compared to syncfusion, was 10x easier to integrate and had 1 million times more users it felt like. The github repo was like night and day in activity
  - adhesive_wombat 4y ago
    > but then it wouldn't be much of a library anymore right? For that much money, I could start a foundation and fund a lot of new libraries if I wanted. I'd sell out for that. Not being much of a library is a problem for the new guys. And, if the new owners screw the pooch, the inevitable Librixos fork would probably just take over anyway.
adamrezich 4y ago
when I worked at a web development company a few years back, they used axios (http library) and I just assumed it was related to Axios (website), like it was made for the website's use and open-sourced. I honestly had no idea they were wholly unrelated.
redanddead 4y ago
I feel like axios the http lib is worth more. 525M is way inflated for some publication that may become worthless at the whim of viewers and journalists aren't investors getting ripped off?
- manquer 4y ago
  they have $100M in revenue up from $85M in 2021 and three profitable years before 2022, so no, no one is getting ripped off.

adhesive_wombat 4y ago

I won't lie, I'd sell an HTTP library for half a billion and change.

redanddead 4y ago
but then it wouldn't be much of a library anymore right? people buy in and work on open source projects because they're open source. that's the only reason I contribute to projects, because it's for the community I know of a few projects that are closed source but on npm, one of which is syncfusion, they make frontend components, I only found them when I was searching for a tree map component. But then I found echarts's tree map component by Apache, and it was like a completely next level compared to syncfusion, was 10x easier to integrate and had 1 million times more users it felt like. The github repo was like night and day in activity
- adhesive_wombat 4y ago
  > but then it wouldn't be much of a library anymore right? For that much money, I could start a foundation and fund a lot of new libraries if I wanted. I'd sell out for that. Not being much of a library is a problem for the new guys. And, if the new owners screw the pooch, the inevitable Librixos fork would probably just take over anyway.

adamrezich 4y ago

when I worked at a web development company a few years back, they used axios (http library) and I just assumed it was related to Axios (website), like it was made for the website's use and open-sourced. I honestly had no idea they were wholly unrelated.

redanddead 4y ago

I feel like axios the http lib is worth more. 525M is way inflated for some publication that may become worthless at the whim of viewers and journalists aren't investors getting ripped off?

manquer 4y ago
they have $100M in revenue up from $85M in 2021 and three profitable years before 2022, so no, no one is getting ripped off.