Developers, we demanded open source software & got it - #OSS has won in a big way!
Now it's time to demand open source software governance! (1/7)
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Open source code matters for users. Open source governance matters for contributors and other vendors. And it is essential for true innovation, fairness and long term sustainability (2/7)
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@code as an example. It has one of the highest number of OSS contributors. But no matter how many pull requests you get accepted, currently the only path to commit rights is being hired by@Microsoft. (3/7)3 replies 0 retweets 5 likesShow this thread -
Single company open source is a one-way street.
@code can happily reuse@EclipseJavaIDE JDT backend code for it's Java support. But if@EclipseJavaIDE reuses some of VS code extensions, it would be violating license conditions. Open source with caveats. (4/7)2 replies 1 retweet 6 likesShow this thread -
Projects with good open source governance:
@EclipseJavaIDE ,@jakartaee and all@EclipseFdn projects@Linux ,@kubernetesio and all@linuxfoundation foundation projects@TheApacheTomcat and all@TheASF projects (5/7)2 replies 0 retweets 11 likesShow this thread
Mozilla has done well with @rustlang. It has a right mix of devs from both inside and outside maintaining it and groups to cater to different parts of the language. Couldn't be maintained better than that
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