Timothy Ivaikin, a Russian friend of mine commented about nGinx on this article, claiming the same was true for nGinx - So I became curious about i...
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I believe that represents lack of tools to evaluate the team behind project: if GitHub shows "500 contributors", people don't look past that, but if there are "5 contributors", they are suspicious. In that regard, adding one community manager may have more effect than one additional developer...
Unfortunately, simpler ways to analyze communities interfere with people' privacy (or require keeping the results to oneself)...
Though, I don't think that the Internet will necessarily break if nginx is no longer worked upon. For a decade it might work normally, and then new (more thought-through) standards would come, making servers simpler.
True, but if there's a severe bug or security flaw in it, the internet would collapse - Which I think I mentioned as a condition.
Regardless, investors will evaluate your company according to how many people work in it, while the truth is that there are no more than 2 guys working on nGinx, and only 1 is actively participating. In theory the dude could start another company, and it would be worth 670 million dollars 3 seconds after he started it ...
It's all publicly available actually. Just click "Commits" on the repo 😉
Hehehe, I luv that image :)
yeah me too so I had to adapt it for my case :D
VC funding has become who you know, not what you can do. 100 people VC funded also represents the hundreds of thousands entirely excluded as well as what's being made becoming unmaintainable.
So true ...
All this to criticize capitalism?
Ah, btw 34% is not half anything (is a bit more than 1/3, only)
Ah, btw Nginx is open source and have alternatives.
This make me remember the "2000 year bug", more or less ;)