{"id":1592,"date":"2010-08-07T03:34:32","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T02:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiber-space.de\/wordpress\/?p=1592"},"modified":"2010-08-07T03:34:45","modified_gmt":"2010-08-07T02:34:45","slug":"open-source-saturation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fiber-space.de\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/07\/open-source-saturation\/","title":{"rendered":"Open source saturation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading the following post of <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.jimmy.schementi.com\/2010\/08\/start-spreading-news-future-of-jimmy.html\">Jimmy Schementi<\/a> who explained his exit at Microsoft with the loss of MS&#8217;s interest in IronRuby I start to wonder if this isn&#8217;t a sign of the times? Open source projects get started by a small team of employees and killed when they don&#8217;t attract a community which brings them forth what rarely ever happens because everyone in OSS is already busy and either engaged with a major project, a brand which has been established a few years ago like (C)Python, Rails, Linux or Django\u00a0 or doing solo acts as in my own case. Same with <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/update-on-google-wave.html\">Google Wave<\/a> which was promising but the only wave it produced was a Tsunami of initial attention in the wikiredditblogosphere. Everyone expected Google would bring it forth just like any other commodity. I guess the same would happen to their Go language which was started by a superstar team of veteran programmers and would immediately go away if Google discontinues investment.<\/p>\n<p>There are very few brands which are both new and do well like Clojure and Scala which seem to follow Pythons BDFL model and they are &#8211; unsurprisingly? &#8211; programming languages. Are there other examples of OSS projects that peaked in the last 2-3 years and established a community of regular committers who are not interns of a single company or do we see an almost inevitable saturation?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading the following post of Jimmy Schementi who explained his exit at Microsoft with the loss of MS&#8217;s interest in IronRuby I start to wonder if this isn&#8217;t a sign of the times? Open source projects get started by a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/fiber-space.de\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/07\/open-source-saturation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fiber-space.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fiber-space.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fiber-space.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fiber-space.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fiber-space.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1592"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/fiber-space.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1598,"href":"http:\/\/fiber-space.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions\/1598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fiber-space.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fiber-space.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fiber-space.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}