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These tools are open source, if they lock them down the community will just fork them.
by Maxion 7mo ago
These tools are open source, if they lock them down the community will just fork them.
- hijodelsol 7mo agoThis might be true for uv and ruff, and hopefully that will happen. But pyx is a platform with associated hosting and if successful would lock people into the Astral ecosystem, even if the code itself was open source.
- pjmlp 7mo agoNice idea in theory, in practice is how many folks down in Nebraska are going to show up.
- zem 7mo agoas someone who works in the python tooling space I think you underestimate the number of people who would be willing to do this. i would personally help maintain a community fork of ruff if it got to the point where one was needed, though I draw the line at moving to nebraska first.
- pjmlp 7mo agoIt is proven by the amount of projects that eventually falled by the wayside after the first wave of volunteers run out of steam to keep it going post-fork.
- zem 7mo agothat is a fair point, but I also believe that that happens when the project gets superseded by something better. I do not think ruff or uv will die because people went back to earlier solutions, if openai does kill them and the community fork runs out of steam it will be because someone made an even better tool, possibly incorporating the lessons learnt from astral's efforts.
- MangoCoffee 7mo agoisn't that's the point of open source software? like when Oracle bought Sun. someone forked mysql and created mariadb.
- pjmlp 7mo agoIndeed, and how much has it kept the pace versus the alternatives? Also, the survivors are the exception, not the rule.
- JetSpiegel 7mo ago"Someone" was the original mysql creator. It was a brilliant way to get Oracle cash then havr his own company. Getting a cake, and eat it too.