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> Joyent have squandered much of the trust and respect they once had and they continue to frustrate even in their involvement in the AB and Foundation discussio
by primitivesuave 12y ago
> Joyent have squandered much of the trust and respect they once had and they continue to frustrate even in their involvement in the AB and Foundation discussions. Does their re-involvement in this community have an impact or do we imagine they will once again become the constructive force they used to be or perhaps they will be neutralised in a way that everyone's happy?
What's this all about?
- Osiris 12y agoJoyent practically stopped development on node.js. They promised a 0.12 stable release repeatedly over 2 years before it was finally released. Joyent also has gotten into squabbles with StrongLoop over contributions to node.
- iends 12y agoIt reminds me a lot of embrace, extend, extinguish employed by Microsoft. Once they got platform adoption and popularity, it's like they stopped investing in the platform. At least that's my perception as an outside user.
- jordanlev 12y agoeh, this sounds more like an "embrace and ignore" situation (like IE6). The "extend" was about adding new features that were incompatible with the existing standard (which would in turn lead to the existing standard being "extinguished" because MS was so dominant that whatever they pushed would become the new defacto standard over whatever they "embraced" in the first place).