I love ⁦ @alexwilliams⁩ - but I don’t love this particular Op-Ed: Kubernetes May Be Google’s Last Great Open Project – The New Stack https://thenewstack.io/op-ed-kubernetes-may-be-googles-last-great-open-project/

If the only way google can have successful open source projects is to turn control over to a consortium of vendors, then we should be worried more about open source than we are about google.

Plenty of great open source projects don’t have that particular strategic approach - I’m looking at, say, Go - happily thriving. But it’s not always better for the creators of a tech to create a neutral home (because they plan to benefit!)

Google will create successful open source with a plethora of models, because there isn’t one size that fits all problems. It’s not better to make that part of our judgement criteria.

It should be part of IBMs, or Microsoft’s - but for most of us, as users - we should care about investment in engineering and community collaboration. Both of which can exist without any foundations at all.

What this shit does do: it makes regular, rational business people look at open source and go: why invest in the drama? One sure way not to have this press: don’t play.