> We have plenty of examples of open source databases, operating systems, libraries and languages leaving the major companies they were created at and being sco

> We have plenty of examples of open source databases, operating systems, libraries and languages leaving the major companies they were created at and being scooped up by a foundation or consortium to maintain. We have just as many left to die. We just don't know or don't talk about them anymore. > WebOS is a great example. Created by Palm as a mobile OS before they sold it to HP, who open sourced it. Now the primary contributor is LG, who uses it in smart tvs. Ah. So the mythical "community" that will scoop in and continue developing is a compani with a 60-billion yearly revenue. Got it. > Chromium is far too important, and there's already thousands of eyeballs on that code base. Eyeballs rarely, if ever, translate into understanding the codebase, or being able to do anything about it. > There would be a Chromium Foundation established very quickly if Google abandoned. Can I interest you in Apache Foundation where great amazing projects no longer supported by their original company go to slowly slide into oblivion?