OPA maintainers and Styra employees hired by Apple
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OPA maintainers and Styra employees hired by Apple
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Re: OPA maintainers and Styra employees hired by Apple
#2Great job Styra team, great job Apple!
OPA is a great project and I am glad they are looking to open-source the Enterprise OPA offerings
Re: OPA maintainers and Styra employees hired by Apple
#3This is an extremely smart acquisition by Apple, very nice to see.
Re: OPA maintainers and Styra employees hired by Apple
#41. Any idea on what should I start next so that I can get acquihired?
2. It looks like Apple didn't get much 'ownership' of OPA in this case, what was the point of purchasing the company as a whole versus simply offering these 3 employees generous sign-on bonuses?
3. Why is it that companies generally tend to pay a lot more per employee in an acquihire scenario?
Re: OPA maintainers and Styra employees hired by Apple
#5Based on Apple's acquisition of FoundationDB, this seems like it will have negative consequences for public development of OPA.
What are the counterexamples, where Apple acquiring a project results in it being more open with sustained development?
Re: OPA maintainers and Styra employees hired by Apple
#6Isn't Styra like a company of like 50-100 people? Seems like it'd be a bummer to be an employee at the company that gets left behind.
Re: OPA maintainers and Styra employees hired by Apple
#71. Any idea on what should I start next so that I can get acquihired? 2. It looks like Apple didn't get much 'ownership' of OPA in this case, what was the point of purchasing the company as a whole versus simply offering these 3 employees generous sign-on bonuses? 3. Why is it that companies generally tend to pay a lot more per employee in an acquihire scenario?
3. (From zero authority here as I’ve never bought a company:)
Perhaps the acquired employees might prefer this for tax reasons. If they stand to profit mainly via capital gains, that is wildly better than receiving ordinary income, like a bonus, would be.
Or, a completely different, unverifiable possibility:
An acquisition does not set any precedent for compensation of any kind. As a general rule corporations hate paying humans, but don’t mind paying other corporations.
Re: OPA maintainers and Styra employees hired by Apple
#8This is a very well written announcement. It immediately defines OPA (for people like me who don’t immediately recognize it). It says what’s not changing for people, and says where things will go.
Congratulations to the team.
Re: OPA maintainers and Styra employees hired by Apple
#9Based on Apple's acquisition of FoundationDB, this seems like it will have negative consequences for public development of OPA. What are the counterexamples, where Apple acquiring a project results in it being more open with sustained development?
CUPS?
Re: OPA maintainers and Styra employees hired by Apple
#10Based on Apple's acquisition of FoundationDB, this seems like it will have negative consequences for public development of OPA. What are the counterexamples, where Apple acquiring a project results in it being more open with sustained development?
Was FoundationDB a CNCF project at the time of acquisition, or in some similar incubator/umbrella? Besides, seems FoundationDB was open sourced after Apple acquired it, wouldn't mean FoundationDB get more open after the acquisition? Although development stalled no matter what so maybe doesn't matter.