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VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare

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Re: VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare

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Post by pier25 »

rvz wrote: post #7

This is what happens when developers do not pay for their tools. Companies instead take full control over it and the team then loses their independence. Just like Bun, Astral and Astro, did VoidZero ever make any money? If not then this is why open source alone is unsustainable, especially in the age of AI.

afaik Void Cloud never went GA

Re: VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare

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Post by bakugo »

rvz wrote: post #7

This is what happens when developers do not pay for their tools. Companies instead take full control over it and the team then loses their independence. Just like Bun, Astral and Astro, did VoidZero ever make any money? If not then this is why open source alone is unsustainable, especially in the age of AI.

This would happen even if developers were paying, because a 100 billion dollar corporation like Cloudflare can always pay more.

It has nothing to do with sustainability and everything to do with cashing out a huge payday, which seems to be the end goal of everything nowadays.

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Post by LoganDark »

> Before saying anything else, we want to make the most important thing clear: Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+ will stay open source, vendor-agnostic, and community-driven. Nothing about that changes.

Given how every single acquisition like this has gone, especially lately, I look forward to seeing how quickly these products get left behind and unmaintained as their entire team move onto things at CF.

Re: VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare

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Post by applfanboysbgon »

holistio wrote: post #6

Do we have any chance left of using software for our work without Big Tech behind it?

Yes. Pay for software from independent developers and small businesses. The entire reason big tech is where it is is because nobody wants to pay for software, and big tech is the way to make money off of "free" software. Software developers need money to eat, so this is the inevitable result of demanding everything for free. Actions meet consequences.
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