Questions on the Future of Open Source

Here are some assertions about a class of great open source produced over the past 10 or so years:

It seems to come out largely from developers in big but not usually the biggest companies that have large technology teams (specifically: not necessarily “pure” tech companies). The open source software being created from the ground up by these cloud providers and big company consortiums frequently has complexity commensurate with the scale and resources of its creators. We’re seeing a ton of projects being built the opposite way, trying to address a perceived need in the industry (or, in my mind, worse: trying to take a piece of a successful ecosystem from a very large and extremely scaled tech company and make it useful for external developers outside of that ecosystem, thus generally violating Gall’s Law).

Source: gist.github.com