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I expect that most people, like myself, want to use good development tools and platforms, rather than waste time getting involved in whatever petty drama happen
by matthewmacleod 13y ago
I expect that most people, like myself, want to use good development tools and platforms, rather than waste time getting involved in whatever petty drama happens to be going on.
Node is open-source, and if Joyent act like assholes, it'll be forked.
- argonaut 13y agoThe "we/you can just fork it" argument really doesn't work out. And when it's used by maintainers to justify something, it's a total cop-out. The fact is that forking it will fragment the community, confuse users, slow down adoption, and generally have negative effects for years and years. Even if everyone eventually moves to the fork (best-case scenario!), the ecosystem will have lost tremendous amounts of momentum.
- steveklabnik 13y ago> The "we/you can just fork it" argument really doesn't work out. Worked pretty well for MySQL.
- beaumartinez 13y agoNot really, MariaDB has nowhere near the adoption levels MySQL has. Even so, MySQL was one of the biggest gratis databases, and it happened to be bought by a company that specialized in selling established enterprise database software. There was concern RE the support a gratis database would have under such a company. The situation that created MariaDB is very specific, and very different to the one Node.js is in.
- mattmanser 13y agoLibreOffice then?
- alecthomas 13y agoI think the XOrg fork from XFree86 is the best example I can think of.
- tjholowaychuk 13y agoI bet if we forked it people would migrate no problem, as long as most the major contributors were involved. IMHO Joyent doesn't add much value, at least that I've seen, if anything they seem to want to keep it fragile so you have to use their tools to debug it properly.