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I'm more worried about commercial entities gaining power - by simply employing enough people to work on something that the alternatives cannot compete. People
by t43562 3y ago
I'm more worried about commercial entities gaining power - by simply employing enough people to work on something that the alternatives cannot compete.
People who want "one" anything - I can sympathise with the desire for simplicity (as long as it's a kind that suits you) but I hope it never happens.
- oblio 3y agoThis is a niche concern. There are no commercial package managers that I know of, in any mainstream ecosystem. Even Gradle, which probably comes closest, is perfectly usable without the commercial add-ons.
- nerdponx 3y agoArguably, Conda is a commercial product that exists to serve the needs of Anaconda first and others second. Fortunately Anaconda has been a very benevolent overlord.
- t43562 3y agoI'm not thinking of commercial anything - just changes financed by companies that want them. Example: PyPy getting almost no funding but Microsoft getting it's JIT into cpython. Big money will be deciding what happens. We're already all dependent on Github - and they've managed to use our code to train their AI. Like a vampire offering poor travellers a bed in it's castle and then sucking their blood :-D