Frankly, it’s weird. You can find this business model all over the open-source world but for some reason Astral in particular is singled out for way more criticism on this than anything else I’ve seen, despite being unambiguously great contributors who have never put a foot wrong as far as I can tell.
Microsoft – who invented embrace, extend, and extinguish – own NPM, but I don’t see people wringing their hands over them in every thread that mentions NPM. But you mention Astral here or on Reddit and people line up to tell you it’s only a matter of time before they fuck people over. Why the disparity?
Microsoft – who invented embrace, extend, and extinguish – own NPM, but I don’t see people wringing their hands over them in every thread that mentions NPM. But you mention Astral here or on Reddit and people line up to tell you it’s only a matter of time before they fuck people over. Why the disparity?