[cybrexalpha]

I'm getting increasingly nervous about baking in assumptions on software that doesn't have a strong guarantee of staying open source. Foundations like the CNCF help here, where projects are assigned ownership to the foundation.

There is a middle ground though. It's not practical to only build on top of foundation-owned software. So a metric I use these days is to consider the cost of replacement or fork maintenance, combined with how likely I think a license change would be, as part of evaluation.

[Pet_Ant]

Even with the Apache foundation therenis no guarantee they’ll be maintainers for support and active development. Only guarantee is a company that is profitable but doesn’t want more money…

[SOLAR_FIELDS]

Even with the CNCF badge there is no guarantee. See the sketchy ownership semi scandal over Linkerd

[pjmlp]

Maybe people should be getting nervous that the whole flower power mentality of FOSS doesn't really scale when there are bills to pay, and families to nurture.