Why is this a bad thing? Sounds like they are leaving it open source with the existing MIT license. The potential for a rug pull exists of course, but that potential exists whether or not they got bought.
I’ll give my reasoning. Or at least one story from a compendium of many.
There is an OSS library called ktlint for Kotlin. It is a “no bikeshedding linter” that was supposed to be based on the default rules from JetBrains. That is, if a rule existed already from JB then ktlint would enforce it and if the rule wasn’t specified it would make and enforce a new one that the community agreed on.
That was all fine and dandy until I and some others pointed out that one of the rules was the exact opposite of what JB had specified. When called out the owner of the repository didn’t care, until too many people were against his choices that he couldn’t ignore it anymore. He made it configurable.
So the rule was fixed. Until he sold the repository to Pinterest. Pinterest just wanted to own ktlint so they could control the rules. They immediately changed it back and made it non-configurable. When pressed on it, they just refused saying it wasn’t going to be that way anymore. They didn’t care what the community wanted they just wanted to control the rules for themselves.
The repository is open source, but they took the most widely used Kotlin linter and essentially stole it from the community. Getting enough people to switch because of one rule will never happen.
On top of that, Shopify is a company that had numerous anti-consumer practices, seems to be gobbling up things left and right, and proudly advertises their AI bullshit left and right. They are not a trustworthy party.
Shopify's CEO is also part of this whole Omarchy funding shit too. So, now tailwind, the CSS library I have used for years... is loosely in that orbit.
I'm pretty sure I should just go back to rolling my own flexbox library per project at this point.
Then again, I was never one for CSS frameworks (or frameworks of any kind, really). So I won't be too sad about doing CSS by-hand, like Arceus intended.
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lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 6d
We just can’t have nice things
tremble5218@programming.dev · 2 pts · 6d
We can have nice things, just not forever.
IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 6d
Why is this a bad thing? Sounds like they are leaving it open source with the existing MIT license. The potential for a rug pull exists of course, but that potential exists whether or not they got bought.
snowe@programming.dev · 7 pts · 6d
I’ll give my reasoning. Or at least one story from a compendium of many.
There is an OSS library called ktlint for Kotlin. It is a “no bikeshedding linter” that was supposed to be based on the default rules from JetBrains. That is, if a rule existed already from JB then ktlint would enforce it and if the rule wasn’t specified it would make and enforce a new one that the community agreed on.
That was all fine and dandy until I and some others pointed out that one of the rules was the exact opposite of what JB had specified. When called out the owner of the repository didn’t care, until too many people were against his choices that he couldn’t ignore it anymore. He made it configurable.
So the rule was fixed. Until he sold the repository to Pinterest. Pinterest just wanted to own ktlint so they could control the rules. They immediately changed it back and made it non-configurable. When pressed on it, they just refused saying it wasn’t going to be that way anymore. They didn’t care what the community wanted they just wanted to control the rules for themselves.
The repository is open source, but they took the most widely used Kotlin linter and essentially stole it from the community. Getting enough people to switch because of one rule will never happen.
Oth@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 6d
On top of that, Shopify is a company that had numerous anti-consumer practices, seems to be gobbling up things left and right, and proudly advertises their AI bullshit left and right. They are not a trustworthy party.
pnwpixel@programming.dev · 5 pts · 6d
Shopify's CEO is also part of this whole Omarchy funding shit too. So, now tailwind, the CSS library I have used for years... is loosely in that orbit.
I'm pretty sure I should just go back to rolling my own flexbox library per project at this point.
fubarx@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 5d
lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 5d
RIP Tailwind.
Then again, I was never one for CSS frameworks (or frameworks of any kind, really). So I won't be too sad about doing CSS by-hand, like Arceus intended.