Comment by emilsedgh
8 years ago
In my experience, open source projects that are primarily backed by companies fail to create a real community of developers. Therefore when the company dies, development stalls.
RethinkDB was something that I though would still go strong without the backing. I never used it and was never involved, so I'd love to hear what happened when the company died.
(One exemption is Xfree86 though, which was forked successfully by to community to Xorg if I recall correctly)
It's not going very well for RethinkDB, sadly: https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/6659
That's true, and I want to add that usually it's the company's fault for not guiding the project into the hands of the community (be it intentionally or because of incompetence). Rust is a great example of a "company's project" that reached (or is reaching) a nice spot in autonomy.
I agree but I think Github and Atom are special cases.
A light IDE is not rocket science and this project is known (and loved) by many open source developers.