#OpenSource Hot Take of the night that none of you want right now 😉

🔥 foundations are the gate-keepers of crowns 🔥

the "project maturity ladder", how ever it is defined, is the biggest (and only meaningful) reward that a foundation has
why is this on my mind?

The @CloudNativeFdn TOC is discussing changing the definition of their highest reward -- by removing the test of multi-company contributor base as a key criteria for graduation

https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-toc/message/5340
. @OpenStack community went through convolutions while I was on the TC: we created the "Big Tent"

that debate centered on solving a community problem: TC was backed into in a position of asserting architectural competition between projects. We needed to stop that.
CNCF doesn't have THAT problem

but this? I ... I dunno 🤔 ... It seems like capitulating to "open core" business models

single vendor backed open source projects are all well and good. there are some great ones out there! but those projects are also fragile because of it
maybe that's the problem? too many open core businesses, not enough community developers?

maybe i'm getting old... or maybe i'm just salty from the week ... but I miss the days when I thought #OpenSource was more than just "here, hold my code"
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