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> Before saying anything else, we want to make the most important thing clear: Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+ will stay open source, vendor-agnostic, an
by freedomben 5mo ago
> Before saying anything else, we want to make the most important thing clear: Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+ will stay open source, vendor-agnostic, and community-driven. Nothing about that changes.
Appreciate them putting that so clearly. I am highly skeptical of acquisitions now because we've been burned so many times in the past. Time will tell if this stays true, but at least it's clearly on the record. Would love to know if this is in contract/writing somewhere as part of the acquisition.
- stackskipton 5mo ago>Would love to know if this is in contract/writing somewhere as part of the acquisition. Cloudflare would be insane to allow that provision in the contract or acquisition documents. So I would take that promise as "will stay open source, blah blah blah, for now...."
- borski 5mo agoDropbox did it for Zulip. It entirely depends on how much the seller cared to ensure continuity. It’s not like VoidZero didn’t have plenty of leverage; they weren’t a dying open source project.
- throw14082020 5mo agoDropbox spun out Zulip because it was a failed project they were going to shut down. This is completely different?
- borski 5mo agoDropbox never had any intention of running Zulip. But the team wanted Zulip to continue existing, so they worked that into the agreement with Dropbox. That is my understanding.
- dbbk 5mo agoWhat would they benefit from taking it closed source? And how would that even work for a JavaScript toolchain?
- WhyNotHugo 5mo agoIt's natural to be sceptical. They're investing a huge amount of money and claiming that nothing will change. I.e.: that they seek nothing in return.
- TheAlexLichter 5mo agoNot really. The claim is that nothing will change regarding the OSS projects.