I'm no fan of hostage-taking-via-license-and-naming-rights, but the underlying is bad: too many OSS maintainers are paid too little; Silicon Valley happily rides their wave while erasing them, one ahistorical product launch at a time.https://twitter.com/pfrazee/status/1067219073539473408 …
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Let's also get suuuuuuuper clear on a few things: 1.) OSS is a growth hack (to use the "kids these days" parlance). Not the most sustainable way to make a thing, but a good way to grow one and externalize costs early. 2.) growth hacking, as a goal, is disgusting.
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Replying to @slightlylate
OSS provides dependency resilience, lots of things are too complex to build repeatedly, and too critical to leave in the hands of one master. Or are you arguing Chrome is only open source as a growth hack?
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Replying to @ElliottZ @slightlylate
I'm reading "OSS" in Alex's tweets as "volunteer-maintained OSS", if that helps.
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Yeah, sorry. Chromium is something we (Google) are paying full-freight for; costs not being externalized (e.g., build/test infra, licensing clarity, clear provenance & governance)
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I don't think any other company in the world would be willing to single-handedly sustain the on-going testing and maintaining costs for a project as large as Chromium, while *also* keeping it open source.
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And to be clear, it's not altruistic from Google. But early team member stuck to their desire to make it OSS and enforced it. There's a much needed alignment (occasionally tedious) between the project and the company, and to be blunt, perceived value to the shareholders.
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Well, Mozilla has done this. So that's 2. Apple/WebKit would count except it's BYO graphics/networking/etc.
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