Comment by sxiao

5 years ago

Why is this 'awesome news' for us devs, the market and competition if one vendor now controls all modern SSR frameworks plus significant parts of the tool chain (swc)?

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afavour  5 years ago

Does Vercel actually “control” Svelte, though? The existing governance structure is untouched, they’re just paying the salary of the lead (and definitely not only) developer.

  • sxiao  5 years ago

    Not sure if this topic is worth our time to debate. There are millions of ways of subtly controlling/influencing entities. And it's much easier if you pay money, ESOP and pay even more money if future goals and exits come alive.

    • DonHopkins  5 years ago

      The Zope Corporation hired Guido van Rossum to work on Zope for three years (a Python web application server and content management system), then he moved on. That didn't destroy Guido, or Zope, or Python.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zope

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido_van_Rossum#Work

      >He has worked for various research institutes, including the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in the Netherlands, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI). From 2000 until 2003 he worked for Zope Corporation. In 2003 Van Rossum left Zope for Elemental Security. While there he worked on a custom programming language for the organization. From 2005 to December 2012, he worked at Google, where he spent half of his time developing the Python language. In January 2013, he started working for Dropbox. In October 2019, Van Rossum officially retired before coming out of retirement the following year to join Microsoft.

      Guido and Rich are both uncontrollable forces of nature!

    • afavour  5 years ago

      Even if Vercel came out and said “we’ve bought Rich Harris’s voice, every choice will be controlled by us” (which they haven’t!) they still wouldn’t control the project because Rich isn’t a BDFL.

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