You mean like SproutCore? The passion for OSS projects outlive the employment of the authors. Hence Ember.
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Replying to @sebmarkbage @ebryn
that may not be the example you're looking for ;p
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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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are you really arguing that a single-corp-centered project isn't in a fraught place once it becomes an issue?
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I'm arguing that people will come and go because of other interests or team dynamics regardless if managed inside or outside.
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Single-corp-ownership doesn't have a great track record. Honestly, time will tell on the current crop of projects.
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Unfortunately projects outside of corp-ownership has bad track records too. I'd love to see more of those models succeed.
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