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What the IBM Acquisition of StrongLoop Means for the Node.js Community

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Re: What the IBM Acquisition of StrongLoop Means for the Node.js Community

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Post by vidarh »

BowBun wrote: post #8

This has some awesome implications for open source. If a huge company like IBM openly supports and dedicates resources to FOSS, I think we can expect these products to get way more attention and receive the full treatment of corporate testing and development which would really offset the ephemeral nature of projects like Node. Not saying the current foundation guys aren't doing a great job already, but IBM's expertis…

IBM has been an open source supporter for a long time. Their first Linux kernel contributions came no later than '99 (when they started upstreaming changes to support Linux on their mainframes, available since 2000).

You can see some details about their open source contributions here: http://www-03.ibm.com/linux/ossstds/oss/ossindex.html

Re: What the IBM Acquisition of StrongLoop Means for the Node.js Community

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Post by kodablah »

rynop wrote: post #29

former IBM dev here (6 years in different areas). I hope they let you work on an island and don't force you to use their tooling/approve listed of open source software. IBM has long embraced the OSS community (I loved LTC), but the process to release/use anything OSS was not good (to put it nicely) and was one of the many reasons I left. I worked on a project that was on an island, and while it was more efficient tha…

Current IBM dev here (but only speaking anecdotally for myself and my project), can confirm that when we were acquired they let our product and policies remain and did not "blue wash" the project. I would assume the same will occur for StrongLoop and their software practices will probably continue mostly unfettered.

Re: What the IBM Acquisition of StrongLoop Means for the Node.js Community

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Post by BowBun »

vezzy-fnord wrote: post #13
BowBun wrote: post #8

This has some awesome implications for open source. If a huge company like IBM openly supports and dedicates resources to FOSS, I think we can expect these products to get way more attention and receive the full treatment of corporate testing and development which would really offset the ephemeral nature of projects like Node. Not saying the current foundation guys aren't doing a great job already, but IBM's expertis…

IBM have been a major Linux contributor since around 2000 (just as a more recent example), so they aren't exactly new to FOSS.

Never said so :)
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