To clarify, Brett, in reference to the first article, the "old timers" around here who followed this issue as it unfolded will probably realize it involves underlying friction between developers at two different companies coming to the surface. The response of Bryan C., publicly calling for the firing of a core node contributor, was alarming to say the least. It hurts Joyent's credibility when heavily invested users see that their top leadership would rather publicly shame a valuable contributor over a minor misunderstanding than deal with it in a productive way.
As Rick pointed out, a foundation in and of itself may not have helped in this particular instance, but the idea in general isn't naive, and might be inevitable. As others have pointed out, there is a reason why software foundations exist. Going forward, the inter-company friction could increase... It should be pointed out that today Joyent announced their new professional services support for enterprise Node.JS users, a business model in direct competition with StrongLoop. Owning copyright and trade marks on the code and brand of Node.JS gives them an undeniable advantage, and although we haven't seen this being abused yet, naivety would be to assume it never would be. Also, as others said, the perception that Joyent "owns" node is a concern for some larger potential users of the technology. I'm not affiliated with either Joyent or StrongLoop; I work for a very large international telecommunications company. It's a continual battle to get acceptance for new technology, and efforts to promote node in the enterprise will be hurt if open hostility is seen coming from it's "corporate stewards", regardless of the underlying issue. A foundation like Mozilla, Apache or Eclipse addresses the perception issue and could also help ease concerns about Joyent's "trigger-happy" leadership. Other considerations for/against a foundation can be seen in the second link to Ryan's original announcement. As for the foundations themselves, I agree that they seem dated and uncool and that Apache might not be the right choice. To be fair, PhoneGap / Cordova went with Apache, so it's not *all* gathering dust. -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
