On Corporate Ownership of #Open_Source
▻https://medium.com/@mikeal/on-corporate-ownership-of-open-source-786ebd15847e
Can companies be more than just participants?
I’ve had a lot of time to think about this. This isn’t about one project or one company or one instance of poor management or leadership. This is about the simple economic conditions we find in open source and the question I’ve continued to ask myself over and over again is, can any company be trusted with the ownership of a community driven open source project? And the answer I’ve finally come to. No.