Elastic promises "open"—delivers proprietary [LWN.net]

Elastic promises "open"—delivers proprietary

Posted Jan 30, 2021 2:58 UTC (Sat) by timrichardson (subscriber, #72836)
In reply to: Elastic promises "open"—delivers proprietary by kemitchell
Parent article: Elastic promises "open"—delivers proprietary

"Maintaining that fork over time, to compete with the company where all the lead developers work, is the hard part."

I think an alternative lesson is that a maintaining a commitment to open source when all the lead developers work at one company is the hard part (for that company's shareholders).

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Elastic promises "open"—delivers proprietary

Posted Jan 30, 2021 18:01 UTC (Sat) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link] (1 responses)

For a publicly owned company, sure. $DAYJOB has been privately held since the beginning and recently went 100% ESOP (employee-owned) to avoid the fate of these FOSS-oriented IPO companies which tend to wreck the culture either internally or with the wider community of its projects and to keep the company focused as it has been.

Elastic promises "open"—delivers proprietary

Posted Jan 31, 2021 5:06 UTC (Sun) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

Since you said several times that you're one of the CMake developers, I can guess which company you're working in. Thank you for your work, it helped me a lot when I was working on scientific visualizations!