You mean like SproutCore? The passion for OSS projects outlive the employment of the authors. Hence Ember.
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apple was not a great community member for SC & strobe got acquired by FB which killed rest of the dev
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the key learning from those experiences was to build a sustainable OSS community decoupled from corps
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The point is that once that became an issue it survived. I doubt the reason people aren't working on it now is because corps.
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you're guessing, but you're guessing wrong. I'm glad Ember's survival is not considered a given, but hardly true.
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the key is to intentionally build in sustainability upfront so it’s not ever a risk for the ecosystem
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the interim risk is that the project gets overly coupled to the needs of the single corp, so uncoupling is hard.
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True. There can be group think and other side-effects but the notion that people are simply pawns of corporations is false.
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that’s def not what I’m implying. it’s about sustainability and protecting the interests of users / the community
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